As we said in our blog post on scientific befuddlement last week, almost a century ago the heads of the peer-reviewed scientific journals and the university scientific departments adopted materialism as their “fundamental scientific dogma.” They were reacting defensively to the 1931 announcement by Max Planck, who had won the 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics as the father of quantum mechanics, that he had discovered that consciousness is primary and it pre-exists matter. And to this day, scientists are spending a fortune on trying to find a source of consciousness inside the human
Consciousness and the Brain
No neuroscientist has been able to find consciousness in the brain or explain how a brain could create consciousness. The reason is that consciousness is not in the brain and is not dependent on the brain.