Comment to 'Consciousness / How Science Regards It'
  • Thank you for posting, very interesting and advanced details!

    "Electricity is itself consciousness, which means that wherever it is in any quantity, minute or cosmic, that is the presence of consciousness. There might be a question about the utility of consciousness but that is a different issue."

     

    Electricity itself is made of electrons and other "unseen" subatomic particles. In quantum mechanics exist experiments of the Observer Effect also known as the Copenhagen Interpretation. wiki/Observer_effect_(physics)

     

    "An especially unusual version of the observer effect occurs in quantum mechanics, as best demonstrated by the double-slit experiment. Physicists have found that even passive observation of quantum phenomena (by changing the test apparatus and passively 'ruling out' all but one possibility), can actually change the measured result. A particularly famous example is the 1998 Weizmann experiment.[1] Despite the "observer" in this experiment being an electronic detector—possibly due to the assumption that the word "observer" implies a person—its results have led to the popular belief that a conscious mind can directly affect reality.[2] The need for the "observer" to be conscious has been rejected by mainstream science as a misconception rooted in a poor understanding of the quantum wave function ψ and the quantum measurement process,[3][4][5] apparently being the generation of information at its most basic level that produces the effect."

     

    Personally, only rarely have I been able to become aware of someone observing me from behind, that feeling in your neck ... (on account of the life force). So apparently particles give more sign of awareness on a predictable and constant basis than fully developed human me.

     

    But there is also Quantum Entanglement, where by a physical phenomenon that occurs when pairs or groups of particles are generated, interact, or share spatial proximity in ways such that the quantum state of each particle cannot be described independently of the state of the other(s), even when the particles are separated by a large distance. See Wiki.