Is the Universe Conscious

Is the Universe Conscious? "When we contemplate the universe, part of the universe becomes conscious of itself... As Carl Sagan put it, 'humans are the stuff of the cosmos examining itself.'" https://stevestewartwilliams.substack.com/p/is-the-universe-conscious 92 comments 14/10/2023 philosophy

[Meirov] Tua Tagovailoa has been taken to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center (Level 1 Trauma Center). He is conscious, per he broadcast. There was no mention on if he has movement in his extremities https://twitter.com/mysportsupdate/status/1575663599346925568?s=46&t=pgVfPlNa-fosPIy0vNBh7Q 2 comments 30/9/2022 sports

[Meirov] Tua Tagovailoa has been taken to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center (Level 1 Trauma Center). He is conscious, per he broadcast. There was no mention on if he has movement in his extremities https://twitter.com/mysportsupdate/status/1575663599346925568?s=46&t=pgVfPlNa-fosPIy0vNBh7Q 350 comments 30/9/2022 nfl

Tom DeLonge: Consciousness, UFOs, Universe, and Human Abilities https://www.reddit.com/r/whatistrue/comments/vq71j1/tom_delonge_consciousness_ufos_universe_and_human/ 3 comments 3/7/2022 aliens

The research has found a correlation between specific brainwave patterns and Altered States of Consciousness (ASC), experiences where people report things from seeing ‘angels/aliens’ to being shown the mysteries of the Universe. Lesser brain activity correlated with the ‘breakthrough experience’. https://youtu.be/y3b_b-pnvqI 2 comments 28/6/2022 cogsci

State of consciousness may involve quantum effects, University of Calgary scientists show https://ucalgary.ca/news/state-consciousness-may-involve-quantum-effects-university-calgary-scientists-show?mkt_tok=mtyxlu9mti05otaaaaf9tmncr0z3wog-lrjos46sh337maxz2wxlyzvvzxehblqktag3tlxqpjc5-nwk-hquwoo_2nb17dxovjxydqt3kmpoifzob4aywyludztu7eepmr4&fbclid=iwar0thtg0mfzadc3-p7fet16xfqprnvnx6f9ugiher69blwgdijvdullaeyq 91 comments 16/6/2021 science

The Universe as a Conscious Mind | Cosmopsychism might seem crazy, but it provides a robust explanatory model for how the Universe became fine-tuned for life https://aeon.co/essays/cosmopsychism-explains-why-the-universe-is-fine-tuned-for-life 53 comments 13/2/2021 philosophy

Almost all of Britain's top universities have committed to selling their shares in fossil fuel companies after pressure from eco-conscious students who have occupied buildings and carried out hunger strikes. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/university-fossil-fuels-divest-russell-group-climate-change-crisis-a9281566.html 216 comments 14/1/2020 worldnews

Bernardo Kastrup on Consciousness - Panpsychism’s efforts to explain consciousness are undermined by its reliance on a materialist assumption of discrete boundaries. Given quantum theory’s proof that no such boundaries exist, an idealist concept of universal consciousness is a better solution. https://iai.tv/articles/will-we-ever-understand-consciousness-auid-1288 11 comments 10/1/2020 philosophy

The Universe might be conscious - New theory https://theantimedia.com/universe-conscious/ 326 comments 2/1/2020 philosophy

Why some scientists believe the universe is conscious https://mindmatters.ai/2019/08/why-some-scientists-believe-the-universe-is-conscious/ 1237 comments 2/8/2019 philosophy

Interview with Harvard University Professor of Philosophy Christine Korsgaard about her new book "Fellow Creatures: Our Obligations to the Other Animals" in which she argues that humans have a duty to value our fellow creatures not as tools, but as sentient beings capable of consciousness https://phys.org/news/2019-06-case-animals-important-people.html 43 comments 21/6/2019 books

Interview with Harvard University Professor of Philosophy Christine Korsgaard about her new book "Fellow Creatures: Our Obligations to the Other Animals" in which she argues that humans have a duty to value our fellow creatures not as tools, but as sentient beings capable of consciousness https://phys.org/news/2019-06-case-animals-important-people.html 461 comments 21/6/2019 philosophy

Scientists Now Believe the Universe Itself May Be Conscious https://theantimedia.com/universe-conscious/ 8 comments 8/3/2019 nottheonion

The Universe might be conscious - New theory https://theantimedia.com/universe-conscious/ 1048 comments 7/3/2019 philosophy

Mirco Mueller had full feeling and movement in his extremities. He was alert oriented and conscious. Taken to University Hospital for further evaluation https://twitter.com/njdevils/status/1100954040299601920 37 comments 28/2/2019 hockey

Any scientific theory about the Universe being 'conscious' ? https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/afm2bt/any_scientific_theory_about_the_universe_being/ 26 comments 13/1/2019 space

Researchers from UC Berkeley and Princeton University have shown that humans and monkeys oscillate in and out of consciousness as much as four times every second, suggesting we are not actually conscious much of the time. https://www.inverse.com/article/48300-why-is-it-hard-to-focus-research-humans 24 comments 22/8/2018 science

Elon Musk Reveals Why Humanity Needs to Expand Beyond Earth: to “preserve the light of consciousness”. “It is unknown whether we are the only civilization currently alive in the observable universe, but any chance that we are is added impetus for extending life beyond Earth”. https://www.inverse.com/article/46362-spacex-elon-musk-reveals-why-humanity-needs-to-expand-beyond-earth 34 comments 25/6/2018 space

Is the Universe Conscious? – Corlett Novis – Medium https://medium.com/@corlettnovis_82477/is-the-universe-conscious-53d7cb6e95e6 5 comments 13/6/2018 philosophy

Is the Universe a Conscious Mind? | Explanation of Cosmopsychism https://aeon.co/essays/cosmopsychism-explains-why-the-universe-is-fine-tuned-for-life 4 comments 9/2/2018 philosophy

Integrated Information Theory - a new(ish) theory of mind - posits that consciousness is fundamental to the Universe, and all information processing systems exhibit some form of consciousness http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bobby-azarian/post_10079_b_8160914.html?ir=australia 3 comments 21/9/2015 science

Is the Universe Conscious? https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-nature-nurture-nietzsche-blog/201004/is-the-universe-conscious 15 comments 10/5/2015 philosophy

3-Step Syllogism to Logically Prove the Existence of a Conscious Universe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness_Explained 81 comments 31/3/2015 philosophy

Engineering and Consciousness: Princeton University, Carl Jung, Wolfgang Pauli, and Timothy Leary http://poetsandengineers.com/blog/2015/02/14/engineering-and-consciousness-princeton-engineering-anomalies-research/ 7 comments 16/2/2015 science

Scientists claim that Quantum Theory proves consciousness moves to another universe at death -- Sott.net http://www.sott.net/article/271933-scientists-claim-that-quantum-theory-proves-consciousness-moves-to-another-universe-at-death 8 comments 19/11/2014 philosophy

University of Southampton study suggests consciousness continues in some form after brain death. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/life-after-death-largestever-study-provides-evidence-that-out-of-body-and-neardeath-experiences-may-actually-be-real-9780195.html 14 comments 7/10/2014 worldnews

Presidents in EU Parliament nominate Snowden for Nobel Prize: "He risked his freedom to shed light on the systematic infringements of our rights. His action immensely advanced democratic values and the global consciousness of our interdependency and interconnectedness, and hence universal peace." http://www.greens-efa.eu/nobel-peace-prize-11561.html?x1 114 comments 31/1/2014 worldnews

Presidents in EU Parliament nominate Snowden for Nobel Prize: "He risked his freedom to shed light on the systematic infringements of our rights. His action immensely advanced democratic values and the global consciousness of our interdependency and interconnectedness, and hence universal peace." http://www.greens-efa.eu/nobel-peace-prize-11561.html 7 comments 31/1/2014 worldnews

Electrical signatures of consciousness in the dying brain: A University of Michigan animal study shows high electrical activity in the brain after clinical death http://www.uofmhealth.org/news/archive/201308/electrical-signatures-consciousness-dying-brain 1114 comments 13/8/2013 science

WTF’s going on in the universe + the impending revolution in consciousness http://wp.me/p1uov3-c3 3 comments 25/11/2011 philosophy

"Time Without End: Physics and Biology In an Open Universe" - In 1979, Freeman Dyson predicted the course of the next 10^1500 years and argued that consciousness could survive indefinitely. http://www.aleph.se/trans/global/omega/dyson.txt 21 comments 18/9/2011 science

New Scientist Existence Special: Cosmic mysteries, human questions (Where did we come from? Why is there a universe? Are we alone in the universe? Am I a hologram? Where did my consciousness come from?) http://www.newscientist.com/special/existence?dcmp=nlc-nletter&nsref=existence 12 comments 27/7/2011 science

The Obama administration has asked a federal appeals court to uphold a race-conscious admissions system at the University of Texas at Austin http://online.wsj.com/article/sb10001424052702303601504575153502859094306.html?mod=rss_politics_and_policy 3 comments 31/3/2010 politics

"The Mathematical Foundations of Consciousness," a lecture by Professor Gregg Zuckerman of Yale University http://polymathism.com/ 49 comments 17/2/2010 math

[video] The memory-prediction framework - Jeff Hawkins explains the universal algorithm that underlies human consciousness http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2500845581503718756&hl=en 2 comments 15/8/2007 reddit.com

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