A Philosophical Reassessment of Consciousness-Matter Relations
Philosophy Study April 14, 2026 Weicheng Cui
In 2005, Richard Conn Henry from Johns Hopkins University published “The Mental Universe” in Nature, advancing the idealistic claim that the universe is fundamentally mental and conscious, and that matter has no objective reality. Grounded in a one-sided interpretation of the observational effects in quantum mechanics, this view has sparked long-standing debates across physics, philosophy,...