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Consciousness May Be a Fundamental Force of the Universe, Not a Byproduct

Consciousness May Be a Fundamental Force of the Universe, Not a Byproduct

Jan Otte

You’ve probably grown up accepting that your thoughts, feelings, and inner awareness all emerge from the firing of neurons in your brain. It’s what science has taught us for decades. Your consciousness is simply what happens when billions of brain cells communicate. Simple enough, right? What if you’ve been looking at this backwards the whole ...