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If Consciousness Were All

I’m open to exploring any avenue that may lead to the TOE, so let’s take a look…

If consciousness were all that is, then all reality is constructed from it, for there would be nothing else out there but it. Even bodies and brains would be made of it. “We” are like localized lumps of consciousness in this all-pervading field of experience and gain our individuality, but the spaces among us are consciously experiential and maintain reality as we know it and left it.

Well, what’s so hard about all that? Nothing, for our nightdreams do it for us every night—and we would swear it’s reality, except when we are lucid, and even then, upon inspecting it minutely observe that it is identical to waking reality, although not always as stable.

This is what ours dreams tell us right under our nose—that reality if modeled the same exact way as when we’re awake. Or perhaps it is that there’s no model, that it is just there as it is. It’s not the dream content that’s so revealing—it’s that we have dreams and probably must have them, what with all that consciousness underling dispositions formerly thought of as physical.

What keeps waking reality intact when we’re not attending to it—well, it must be everyone’s collective consciousness that collects together in the spaces between us.

So, there are no atoms, molecules, waves, interference patterns, forces or any kind of other stuff out there but experiential stuff. We are living a stable dream.

How is everything maintained in this all-over consciousness field? Well, our experiments on “reality” seem to show that everything is connected to everything as entanglement, and so that’s what produces the “perception” of consciousness.

We are the Cosmos. We are it. There is nothing more to it.

As somebody once said, “I was an atheist until I realized I was God.”

Soon we may grow to the point where our group consciousness can do more than just cause the fall of communism all over the world, but may do things like mind-melding and/or reading of other’s minds.

(Just exploring various TOE ideas.)