@mindawakeup: This is one of the deepest ideas in consciousness studies, because it challenges the assumption that matter somehow becomes conscious by accident. Instead, it suggests consciousness was never produced by matter, consciousness was there first, and matter is one of the ways consciousness takes form. . Science is powerful, but it mainly studies reality from the outside. It measures behaviour, structure, movement and form. But the most important part of existence is not always visible from the outside. Experience, meaning, awareness, love, pain, beauty, presence, these are all inward realities. . Iain McGilchrist is pointing to that inwardness. Everything may have an inner dimension, even if it is nothing like human consciousness. A particle does not think like you, but it may still have some primitive form of interiority, some inner aspect of being. . This flips the usual model. Instead of saying matter creates consciousness, he suggests matter may be a phase of consciousness. Just like water can appear as liquid, ice or vapour, consciousness may appear in different forms depending on its state. . Matter is consciousness in a denser, more stable phase. It gives reality structure, persistence and form. Without it, experience may be too fluid to hold shape. Matter allows consciousness to become something, to build, to remember, to evolve. . That means the universe is not dead matter with consciousness accidentally appearing inside it. The universe may be consciousness expressing itself through different levels of form, from particles to bodies to minds. . This links directly to the idea that everything is connected. If matter is a phase of consciousness, then separation is only surface-level. Deep down, everything is made from the same awareness expressing itself in different states. . Maybe you are not consciousness inside a body. Maybe your body is consciousness taking shape so it can experience itself. . #consciousness #iainmcgilchrist #panpsychism #spiritualawakening #mindawakeup

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