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Live Before You Die
People thought I was mad when I wrote here on FB about talking to everything in your environment because it is conscious. Yes, you are mad to openly admit that you talk to your car or to your favourite spoon, but as the modern science of physics is showing us again and again, you are not as mad as people who still don’t believe that matter is conscious. It’s the feminine mystery of the direct experience of Her Numinous that we live for, another mystic experience of our invisible Interconnecting Divinity, nothing else….
This sounds like easily-dismissible bunkum, but as traditional attempts to explain consciousness continue to fail, the “panpsychist” view is increasingly being taken seriously by credible philosophers, neuroscientists, and physicists, including figures such as neuroscientist Christof Koch and physicist Roger Penrose.
“Why should we think common sense is a good guide to what the universe is like?” says Philip Goff, a philosophy professor at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. “Einstein tells us weird things about the nature of time that counters common sense; quantum mechanics runs counter to common sense. Our intuitive reaction isn’t necessarily a good guide to the nature of reality.”’
— Marek Peter Kaziniec
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