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I am endlessly fascinated by the Hubble Telescope Deep Field images and have different ones as screen savers on my computer's two screens. I look at them and always marvel that what might be taken for stars in the sky are, in fact, galaxies, each containing billions of stars. The European Space Agency (ESA) estimates there are “something like 1022 to 10 stars in the Universe,” that is 10 followed by 22–24 zeros. I have no idea what that number would be called, but it is very vast. The astronomers at ESA note, “This is only a rough number, as obviously not all galaxies are the same.” And of course, many of those stars have a system of planets. Stars plus planets, that is a number too large to conceptualize. One might as well ask how many grains of sand make up the dunes of the Sahara? And whatever the number named, it would probably be smaller (Figure 1). Now, imagine that the astronomical vastness of that space is undergirded by consciousness. Can this be possible? The physicalist worldview says no; consciousness arises from physiology. Yet, thousands of well-conducted experiments and millions of case studies insist there is an aspect of consciousness that is not physiologically based and that is not limited by space time. More than that, they propose consciousness itself is the foundation of all that is. Journals in fields as disparate as physics, biology, and medicine publish articles on this research. There are so many, that each
Consciousness, Humans, Quantum Theory
Consciousness, Humans, Quantum Theory
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