Understanding Consciousness Is Key to Unlocking Secrets of the Universe

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    December 1, 2023 7:33 PM PST
    Physicians are studying human consciousness and AI, to learn the mysteries of the universe.

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    Investigating the mind and confronting the “hard problem” of consciousness necessarily require the collision of disciplines. The field's most significant researchers seem to have stumbled into it from myriad backgrounds—semiconductors, psychiatry and cosmology, among other fields—and it's Musser who wanders into these scientists at conferences, in cafeterias and in train cars to get details on the latest findings. His book is structured as an overview in the form of an expansive series of questions. It begins with the mechanical and local—say, how a brain might anticipate information—and progresses toward ones that threaten any simplistic notion of reality, such as: What if we're only a floating blob mind that briefly materializes in the
    death throes of a universe?