The New Science of Consciousness
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper |
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| Key points | Argues that consciousness is not produced by anything thinkable or discussable; instead, the real cause that generates consciousness can only be presented as nothing within verifiable knowledge, and this framework yields unexpected conclusions about how consciousness generates the physical world. The author proposes to prove these claims with mathematical rigor and an experiment. |
Abstract
For many centuries, the complexity of the movement of the planets and the incomprehensibility of consciousness remained the greatest mysteries for scientists and philosophers. As Copernicus found, the first mystery is easily solved in the reference system associated with the Sun. Is there a reference system in which the mystery of consciousness is easily solved?Such a system exists, but the beliefs inherited from the distant past and deeply rooted in everyday and scientific ideas about the world do not allow discovering it. After all, it is based on the idea that any reality that can be thought and discussed is a product, not a cause of consciousness. If this idea is true, the real cause that once gave birth to consciousness and is generating it right now, within the framework of verifiable knowledge, can only be presented as nothing. This leads to unexpected conclusions about what consciousness is and how it generates the physical world. Since these conclusions take us too far beyond the conventional understanding of consciousness, they will be proved with the rigor inherent in the proofs of mathematical theorems and complemented by a description of an experiment capable of confirming their truth.