Harvard Neuroscientist Studying Non-local Consciousness
The link below is just one example of a respected scientist coming around to the idea that consciousness is non-local (i.e. not produced by the brain). And she is not alone. There is a growing minority of scientists who are willing to entertain ideas that mainstream academia considers “woo.” And she has actual empirical evidence to back it up. This is the important part. You don’t have to trust her credentials, or some random Reddit user’s crockpot theories—these things are measurable, demonstrable.
She describes experiments with autistic children who seem to exhibit resonance in their consciousness with other people, a phenomenon that is typically described with terms like “telepathy.” But she is not suggesting that it violates the laws of physics. It’s not magic. She compares it to natural phenomenon like birds flocking together in their flight patterns, turning as a unit rather than communicating individually to each other. Consciousness seems to be something that can be shared. And if that is true, it suggests that our materialist ontology needs to be updated.
Quantum mechanics is thrown around way too easily to justify spiritualism, usually by people who don’t understand it. But you can find quotes from Schrodinger and other fathers of QFT to make similar points. Real science, like Bell’s theorem and quantum entanglement, offer glimpses of physical principles and mechanisms that could make such phenomenon possible.
When you combine plausible physical theory with a growing body of empirical evidence, this is starting to look like something we can talk about without knee jerk dismissal or ridicule. Epistemic humility is not the same as being irrational.