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Could consciousness be fundamental?
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February 5, 2025
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1:01Now PlayingConsciousness is everything we know and experience, yet its biggest mystery is why a universe full of non-conscious matter sometimes organizes in a way that produces felt experience. Modern neuroscience suggests our intuitions about consciousness may be wrong—what if it's not just a byproduct of complex brains but something more fundamental, woven into nature itself?
Take Jean-Dominique Bauby, a writer who had locked-in syndrome — fully conscious but unable to move except for blinking his left eyelid. With 200,000 blinks, he wrote his book “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,” proving that a rich inner life can exist without any external signs. If consciousness can be completely hidden in a human, could it also exist in other systems that simply can't communicate it?
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