amorphousness The seamlessness of consciousness implies a vast sharing that must be occurring among all human brains. Of course the sharing is occurring with all living things and all matter everywhere. In quantum physics, entanglement is the concept that a particle separated by great distance from another particle can remain entangled with it; poke one, the other instantly feels the poke, no matter where the two are in the Universe. Einstein called it “spooky” and refused to believe that nature could be so unreasonable. Yet there it is, still a cornerstone of quantum science. Scientists...

memory Some scientists, some philosophers, think of the brain as a receiver. They argue that memory isn’t stored in any specific location in the brain, that it is inherently stored throughout the nervous system and even within the organs. But we live in the cosmos, where there are no real barriers anywhere. Could that mean that memories are stored everywhere? That consciousness is creating experience and memories everywhere? NEXT

synapse While this is a very descriptive image of neurons and the axons and dendrites that carry energy and information to other places in the system, the vast space we are now calling consciousness is probably black. More like looking at the sky. In the inset, neurotransmitter vesicles, with red balls - neurotransmitters - inside them, flow to the tip of a transmitting axon, where they explode into free red balls that flee to receptors across the void, on the wall of the dendrite. Creation goes on and on. NEXT

scale The brain is a constantly changing filamental structure with 86 billion neurons firing pulses of energy and information from a sea of consciousness that washes over every detail to the deepest of levels. This structure is at the opposite end of the scale of magnitude from the filamental Universe in the background of this website. So consciousness is infinitely small and large, filling the voids at every scale in the Cosmos it is creating. All the black stuff is the sea of consciousness that surrounds events everywhere, always. At all times. NEXT

the human brain Of course, this is not to say that God is not also having experiences through mosquitos and microbes and elephants and so on. But the human brain has got to be the most complex instrument God uses to experience things, other than the Cosmos itself. Followed, perhaps, by water. NEXT

liberation and consensus  It seems to me potentially liberating to imagine God experiencing his creation through me. And others. If you could sell this story to replace some other stories, you might begin to achieve some consensus around what we should work together on to give God a good experience. Of us, so to speak. NEXT

love and blinding light Many people, including many physicists and philosophers, allow the concept that this consciousness is the sort of Almighty God who envelops the Universe, albeit not one as described, for example, in the Bible as violent and narcissistic and frankly, a little crazy. This new God is love and blinding light creating and experiencing the Cosmos, primarily through us, the humans. So, the story goes, humans create Reality with guidance from that all-embracing consciousness.  NEXT

sorry Sorry for the remark about the Buick Wildcat, but it was a great relief to do that in this otherwise unrelentingly humorless accounting of things. To be honest, it's the 1953 Corvette (above) that remains the fondest automobile dream of my life. Human beings, a bunch of them, imagined that car into existence. Good work, folks. NEXT

consciousness forms people If consciousness uses energy and information to create people, among other things, well, people are pretty complex, capable of experience and intent, so consciousness must be seeking experience and it gives the gift of intent in order to obtain that experience. Through people, consciousness creates babies, and grows networks in them, with the most complicated thing in the Universe evolving in their heads, becoming infused with consciousness.  Consciousness is not in the brain; it contains the brain and everything else in the Universe. Some people are more aware...

consciousness contains everything In this image, consciousness is white. It is forming something shown in shades of gray and black. In space, through our eyes, consciousness is black and matter is brightly colored, sparkling with lights. The core of the discussion about us and particles and the Universe is this: “Consciousness and its contents are all that exists. Space-time, matter and fields never were the fundamental denizens of the universe but have always been, from their beginning, among the humbler contents of consciousness, dependent on it for their very being.” Quoting Donald...