In the Vietnam War a mortar landed nearby that blew Bart into a clear and brilliant blackness. When he returned in 1968 he experimented with LSD, read everything he could find that might offer clues to what had happened to him, studied meditation and attended workshops. After 20 years he hit a wall as a […]
Quantum Enigmatists
Species Universe celebrates the quantum enigmatists or the proponents of consciousness as the ultimate principle of unity.
Menas Kafatos – Does Consciousness Cause the Cosmos?
Consciousness is one of the most abstract and misunderstood concept of the human body. As humans we are aware of this but we do not truly understand it. Some believe that the cosmos is secondary to the consciousness of the human experience. This is a very obscure concept, and many people disagree. Key Takeaways: Cosmos […]
Charles Tart – Does Transpersonal Psychology Revamp Reality?
Transpersonal psychology is the claim that our mental well-being relates, in some sense, to nonphysical interactions of some kind. Transpersonal psychology assumes the reality of ESP, a controversial position to say the least. But can Transpersonal psychology supply its own evidence through its therapies? Watch on for more discussion on this topic. Key Takeaways: Transpersonal […]
Death Is Not Final: Closing Statements
Death is something no one wants to think about. It is going to happen to everyone, or is it? There is a debate going on whether death is final. There are arguments that death is not final. This would center around different levels of consciousness. Until a new Paradigm emerges that answers the question as […]
Extended Awareness: The Possibilities of Quantum Consciousness – Huffington Post (blog)
Various key brain structures and the way information is channeled along neural pathways leads us to hypothesize that the brain possesses a neurological mechanism for self-transcendence. As we progress in self-transcendence, the sense of separation or involvement with the personal mind expands into an awareness of the unique emanation that each of us is […]
Tom Campbell: MBT LA 2016 1 of 7 The Implications of Virtual Reality
Exploring the Implications of Virtual Reality: A Deep Dive with Tom Campbell In the first part of his 2016 Los Angeles series, Tom Campbell delves into the profound implications of virtual reality on our understanding of existence. Campbell, a physicist and consciousness researcher, is renowned for his My Big TOE (Theory of Everything), which posits […]
‘Westworld’ Premise Refuted: Why the Robots Can’t Be Conscious – TheWrap
Exploring the Limits of AI: Why ‘Westworld’ Robots Can’t Truly Be Conscious In the article “‘Westworld’ Premise Refuted: Why the Robots Can’t Be Conscious,” philosopher John Searle critiques the notion that the androids in HBO’s “Westworld” could achieve human-like consciousness. Searle argues that mere computational processes are insufficient for genuine thought, emphasizing that consciousness is […]
Why can’t the world’s greatest minds solve the mystery of consciousness? – The Guardian
Solve the Mystery of Consciousness? Mind over matter, or is it the matter in our minds? That strange pinkish gel/goo stuff in our heads- our human control center is apparently composed of some sort of magical compound wherein the answer of life/awareness can be found. Perhaps it is just our imaginations, or maybe we […]
Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness
It is one thing to say to an individual person or organism that it is conscious, and it is quite another thing to say of one of the mental states of a creature that it is conscious. In contrast, there is considerable dispute as to whether mental states can be phenomenally conscious without also being […]
Charles Tart – How Much More to Physical Reality?
What is the farthest extent of the physical world, not only cosmologically across the universe but also conceptually across laws of nature? Can there be radical new discoveries in the 21st century as relativity and quantum mechanics were in the 20th century? Some speculate that a true understanding of consciousness will require laws as yet […]
