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Title: The brain might not create consciousness after all
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Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:58:14 +0000
Link: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/04/260406192809.htm

Is consciousness something the brain produces, or is it woven into the
fabric of reality itself? Renowned neuroscientist Christof Koch is
challenging long-held scientific assumptions by confronting the rCLhard problemrCY of consciousness rCo why and how subjective experience exists at all. He highlights growing tensions between neuroscience, physics, and unexplained phenomena like near-death experiences and sudden moments of
clarity before death.
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On 07 Apr 2026 02:38:54 GMT, Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid>
wrote:

challenging long-held scientific assumptions by confronting the "hard >problem" of consciousness

Problem here is scientists don't meditate...."The parable of the blind
men and an elephant is a story of a group of blind men who have never
come across an elephant before and who learn and imagine what the
elephant is like by touching it." <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant>

The Tibetan Book of the Dead
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bardo_Thodol>

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