there are 2 areas of intellectual curiousity which i wish to pursue. one is the nature of physical reality. its substance. what is it? what does it consist of? The 2nd is the nature of consciousness. its substance or what does it consist of? (i realise English dictates 'of what does it consist', but that is awkward .
the first problem is pretty much solved by physicists. i would say 95 % solved. i have books that can give a good answer in lay terms. for a mathmatical understanding one needs a degree in math & a few years of post grad studies
as to the 2nd question, the fabric of consciousness, very little is known. i have read a half-dozen books on neuroscience & all they know is what neurons fire under what situations. now there is research out on what glia do, the other 85% of brain tissue. what they do when they are excited and working. and i have heard lectures on the nature of consciousness, but they merely provide discriptions of normal or abnormal behavior & perhaps which neurons are involved.
you see everything that is physical in this world is either matter or energy (actually the matter can be said as deduced from the energy) or the fabric of space-time and as energy is produced by randon fluxations of the space-time continuum (see relativity & quantum mechanics), then reality is merely the hologram produced by warping if space-time.
There, we know what phycical reality is but that is not what consciousness consist of, so what is it? Any thoughts?
Uh oh, Noah, we actually can agree on something. Now THAT'S scary! Have you heard of the movie, "The Living Matrix"? It is NOT the sci-fi one called just "The Matrix." You should find it and watch it. I have it and have watched it several times. Amazon.com has it. Much of it centers around the theories presented by Lynne McTaggart in her book entitled "The Field."
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