Materialist Worldview

The materialist worldview is one that I find particularly depressing. It basically states that consciousness is nothing more than a product of brain function, and it dies out when the brain dies. This is sort of the “lights out” approach to what happens after death. We just stop existing, end of story. But is consciousness attached to the brain? It doesn’t look like it.  As with so many things that once seemed scientifically absurd, quantum mechanics can help us understand how something immaterial like the mind can affect the physical body and even survive the body’s death. One tiny example is the fact that photons, for instance, act like a wave when they aren’t being observed. And as is the case with waves, the photon sort of goes out in all directions without a particular location. In this situation, several different possible realities can actually be present at once. The photon can be in multiple places at the same time. But once we observe the photon, however, it stops acting … [Read more...] about The Materialist Worldview vs. Unbounded Consciousness