Article  Dreams show us consciousness is fundamental?

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Dreams show us consciousness is fundamental
https://iai.tv/articles/dreams-show-us-c..._auid=2020

INTRO: Every scientific experiment requires an observer; every measurement is made by one. But the observer itself remains elusive. Andrew T. Jaffe uses the example of a scientist within a dream who can discover the physical laws of the dream world but can't use the scientific method to discover they're dreaming. This isn’t a gap science will eventually fill because the observer isn’t just another object. Consciousness is fundamental; it is prior to the world that science describes.

EXCERPT: Every experience you have ever had, whether waking or dreaming, shares one remarkable feature. There has always been someone there to have it. Interestingly, this phenomenon is rarely investigated. Science has become extraordinarily successful at explaining the world before us. It has traced the origin of galaxies, explained the evolution of species, mapped the circuitry of the brain and the DNA of the body. Physics has uncovered laws governing matter and the movement of light with astonishing precision. But every scientific explanation begins with an assumption so obvious that it is rarely acknowledged: there is an observer... (MORE - details)


Reality is a dream not a simulation
https://iai.tv/articles/reality-is-a-dre..._auid=2020

INTRO: Most physicists are materialists who believe the world consists of physical particles at the fundamental level. Others have argued reality is a simulation or a hallucination of the brain. But Andrew T. Jaffe challenges all of these views, proposing an alternative consciousness-first theory where space and time arise as within a dream. (MORE - details)
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Quote:Every experience you have ever had, whether waking or dreaming, shares one remarkable feature. There has always been someone there to have it. Interestingly, this phenomenon is rarely investigated. Science has become extraordinarily successful at explaining the world before us. It has traced the origin of galaxies, explained the evolution of species, mapped the circuitry of the brain and the DNA of the body. Physics has uncovered laws governing matter and the movement of light with astonishing precision. But every scientific explanation begins with an assumption so obvious that it is rarely acknowledged: there is an observer..

Indeed the whole physicalist scenario of everything happening objectively always assumes a view from nowhere---an observer which apparently in principle cannot be located inside the scenario itself and yet is instantiating it as objective by watching it all from some inconceivable outside. Like a dream our waking reality is entirely self-contained and self-referential. That's why science is so successful. But what is making this closed realm objective and physical is only ever its conceivability and observability to a phenomenally omnipresent, timeless, and scale-invariant consciousness. The metaphor of the dreamer always being outside their own dream looking in is a powerful one.

"They say that dreams are only real as long as they last. Couldn't you say the same thing about life?"---Waking Life
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Why don't you post this on sciforums? Instead of the atheistic crap?
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