[yohsii]

consciousness does not require a brain. consciousness is fundamental to the universe

[hackinthebochs]

Assertions aren't particularly helpful in this discussion. What reasons are there to think this is true?

[CuriouslyC]

Indeed. To go even farther, I suspect that there is nothing other than consciousness. There are no particles and forces, only awareness and will. The stuff of physics is emergent from statistical properties of consciousness over a large scale.

[CharlesColeman]

> Indeed. To go even farther, I suspect that there is nothing other than consciousness. There are no particles and forces, only awareness and will.

I believe the word for that is idealism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idealism

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/berkeley/

[ci5er]

That is certainly one hypothesis that has not yet been eliminated.