Yes, it is fundamental :) We are ever-evolving, immortal, non-physical beings having a temporary human experience in this "virtual reality", and the purpose of our lives here is to increase the quality of our consciousness through learning and evolving by making good and bad choices. For those of you who enjoyed this documentary and would like to learn more about how our reality truly works, you might want to consider watching former NASA physicist and consciousness / out-of-body expert Tom Campbell's MBT Science Trilogy series here on RU-vid. It is nothing short of life-changing and revolutionary.
Ontological idealism claims that the act of seeing is fundamental to reality. and there is no seeing without becoming of continuity ... You should have mentioned A. N, Whitehead.
@@aleksandarmilenkovic5861 Thank you for these thoughts. I agree that Whitehead is relevant to this discussion, yet he is a highly sophisticated thinker with many distinct terms and ideas. Covering his work would require an entire video.
I loved this video for a particular reason. I am an engineering graduate from the foremost school of technology in India (and now world renowned) named IIT (Indian Institute of Technology). Although my education was totally "scientific" and thus "materialistic", i grew up surrounded by the Vedic tradition of Vedanta philosophy which posited (5,000+ years ago) the concept of "Neutral Monism" called Advaita, which translated means "NON-DUALITY" with the name "Brahman" as the SOLE underlying Reality with the ONLY "attribute" of "Awareness". Listening to this podcast was Deja Vu!👏
Consciousness is not objective it cannot be measured, it is subjective, and we cannot measure love on a scale or document it for further study. First, we have to understand we are conscious, but science dictates that we are flesh. There is no subconsciousness and it was written down by people who have no idea of consciousness I am aware that I am peaceful that is consciousness. Subconsciousness may be delusion.
I am at the foremost school of (Vedic) spirituality in America, Maharishi International University. My education before was also materialistic, but now I get to study 'Vedic Science', the science and experience of consciousness. MIU basically teaches Vedanta. Ancient wisdom is finally becoming re enlivened.
I think that most consciousness explorers (people that try out of body experiences) tend to agree that consciousness is fundamental, and all realities are virtual. Welcome to the Matrix.
I am a science graduate and earlier I thought only through the lenses of materialism until recently. As I dig deep into origin of universe, life and consciousness my belief into something beyond our eyes could see our brains could comprehend becomes stronger.
Sort of the same. No degree but huge science fan. Spent most of my life as a staunch materialist. The deeper I look at reality and into my own mind, I find this belief structure to be lacking.
I've looked at several RU-vid entries on 'Consciousness" and so far this is the most clearly-explained and compelling one. I come away from watching/hearing this with a much more comforting and fascinated viewpoint than I had before.
@@nty3929Or you could say that the universe is a projection of consciousness, and that nothing created consciousness which simply is. That is a sense in which consciousness is fundamental.
Partner, I have been thinking about consciousness since I was fifteen and over the course of the years I "got it"; I recognized the fundamental strangeness of consciousness and its inability to be explained by the reigning doctrines of materialist scientism. Countless times I have tried breathlessly to explain it to people and I am always amazed to find that so few see the magic. Thank you for your channel.
A very similar experience for me, I only heard the word panpsychism yesterday but I had a "great epiphany" in 2015 where it all 'clicked'.. in my enthusiasm and personal clarity I tried again and again to explain it... their eyes would glaze over. I've since been content to let it be and I find so much clarity in this perspective that I don't need to convince anyone of it... it will become self evident over time. Good to find others who are willing to surrender their materialism for something much more powerful.
@@ΠαναγιωτηςΑγγελ very true, one of the inevitable truths that is revealed in panpsychism is the eternal nature of consciousness. Eternal means there is always more, and the more we know... the more we know we DONT know. Science has uncovered far more questions than answers... wisdom is actually just greater awareness of ignorance. And there lies our potential. We are like infants in a library. Until we know we are ignorant we cannot learn. The materialists today think they are scholars in that library... and yet their religion is founded on random chance. 🤔 What panpsychism delivers is the awareness of this ignorance and invites inquiry, curiosity and the opening of new chapters. It embraces it in an unspeakable way. "The words of truth are always paradoxical" Lao Tzu
@@nty3929 That’s a valid point, though far from scientific. e.g. if ANY scientist had taken your stand on any theory that had not yet been defined and measured there would be no science. Before Newton, nobody believed the force of Gravity solved any problems. Before Einstein, nobody believed relativity solved any problems. They both believed and pursued these ideas before they were able to define or measure them. Science is about curiosity, investigation and discovering a way to define and measure reality. The double slit experiment is the beginning of observing consciousness in light. As more minds consider this possibility I predict a beautiful formula will emerge similar to e=mc2. We didn’t have a way to measure the energy in matter before Einstein defined it so beautifully… he never would have sought to define it or measure it if he took your stand. "it doesn't solve anything" , is irrelevant to Science. The question that should be asked: "Is it True?"
"You cannot exist within the universe without also being the universe", "we are the universe experiencing itself", "humanity is just something hydrogen does given enough time" These sound like jokes or nonsense but all of them are varifiably true, and any theory of everything that does not integrate them cannot be true
I said it about your video about the simulation theory, and i say it about this too, Phenomenal editing, so well put together, the images the music, timing of the clips, the information and the narative of voice. This is in my opinion a video that is one of THE best on youtube right now, cutting edge subject for mankind to study and pursue, the coming years will show how important. Thank you for dedicating this kind of attention to every part of your video, and i hope you stay close to the edge 😊 of the frontiers of human potential, and understanding of what it is that we call reality.
I was indoctrinated into the scientific materialistic mentality for most of my life. Checkout my channel if you want to see my journey in expanding my consciousness.
If a tree falls in a forest and no ones around to hear it, does it make a sound? You would assume yes why wouldn’t it, there’s other life forms around such as other trees so of course it makes a sound. But let’s expand this question. If a universe is created and there’s no consciousness to perceive anything, does anything really exist at all? If it did exist with no conscious to acknowledge creation, does it even matter? If there’s no consciousness to observe anything how could we be sure anything exists at all. Yin yang. You can’t have one without the other. Consciousness itself is the fundamental force behind creation. God, the universe, consciousness, creation, these are all the same things. The very fact that something exists rather than nothing implies that everything is eternal and everything has always existed, and will continue to exist infinitely. Now time to play the game of life and try to find some enjoyment. ✌️
I know this is not relevant to the idea you're expressing, but I have always disliked the tree falling in the forest metaphor. It's based on a misunderstanding of what 'sound" means. Sound is the perception of an air wave exciting the diaphragm of the ear. So of course sound requires the participation of some creature with an ear. The answer to the question is No.
As Schopenhauer said, “No object without subject.” If there’s no subjectivity to observe objective reality, there’s no event in any meaningful sense to talk about. Therefore, for Idealists, subjectivity is always first and last; it’s really all there is to talk about. The tree will effect a cause, sure, as trees are constrained by causality, but sound is a subjective experience. So no, it does not make a sound if nobody is there to see (or hear) it fall. Also, vise-versa, no subject without object. It’s hard to imagine a meta-cognitive existence with no boundaries. The boundaries, ie Markov kernels, define us. The universe, then, has to necessarily disassociate to fulfill its own fundamental, subjective, albeit blind drives-ostensibly, diversity and complexity are selected for over time via a kinda universal natural bias.
I concur, but it’s a deeper philosophical question than it at first appears, as it is a thought experiment about subject-object distinction. There’s both hidden empirical and conceptual assumptions one must make to answer this question. It gets people talking is the point.
What strikes me most personally watching this inspiring video, is the apparent convergence of these pan psychic accounts towards the ideas of non dualism already uttered in ancient Hindu philosophy (e.g., Advaita Vedanta). Especially the concept of "cosmopsychism" as one consciousness being refracted into individual minds is one of its basic premises. I wonder whether there are/were some inspirations drawn from these "eastern" ideas for the different "western" concepts or whether they were rather independently developed. Either way, consciousness as a fundamental property of nature is a fascinating idea I still have no definite position on.
Check out Plato's Theory of forms, neo platonism and Gnostic philosophy they are western, but they are mostly occulted, meaning obscured. But that Non Duality concept is pretty universal.. and this path will lead you to searching ancient civilizations and the myth behind Atlantis :)
Of course it is & I don't need to watch a video to know consciousness is everything, it is reality, plain & simple, its what reality really is 🧠 Our brains are not the source of consciousness either, they transmit & receive, we're in a layered conscious multiverse, consciousness determines reality without a doubt
I was indoctrinated into the scientific materialistic mentality for most of my life. It's all a lie used to mask the true reality of the universe. Checkout my channel if you want to see my journey in expanding my consciousness.
Wow. Blown away. This might just be the way it is! Conciousness may be fundamental to the whole of the Universe - and the conciousness I experience is then just a perspective and an aggregate of the conciousness of the cells of my body, which all have their own conciousness(es). In a way also on the molecular level. This was a liberating idea. Thank you. 🌟🌱
I am the universal consciousness that Is, that exists, that will allways be, that it is NOT created, that can NOT be transformed, that only it is REALIZED, in UNITY, in the totality of The Existance. I am nothing and I am everything. I am I. In short, I am Another You!
I was so glad to see that this was out. Maybe the best overview production I've seen on the subject. I'm surprised you didn't bring up Donald Hoffman's conscious agents Theory. I did see a quick shot of him. Along more psychological lines, is Ian McGilchrist's work on the relationships between the hemispheres of the brain. It gives a wonderful account of how we've arrived at the world we currently live in. His 2009 book "The Master and His Emissary" and soon to be released book "The Matter With Things" should be read by anyone seriously interested in consciousness. I think he'll be instrumental in our advancing beyond a world of toddlers who think we're hot shit because we have rockets and computers. After a full blown, spontaneous, nearly instantaneous kundalini awakening in the seventies and 45 years of subsequent meditation sprinkled with intense psychedelic experiences, I assert that consciousness is, preceding time, and that everything else is an expression of it. Pure, infinite, cosmic, God consciousness is, and it's nature is to express itself. It is the only thing that is really real - everything else comes and goes, but it just is. Consciousness is; awareness implies one that is aware and something to be aware of - the observer and the observed; perception adds the process, giving the observer, the thing that is observed, and the observation - something happens. I use a hierarchical structure with unity at the peak and multiplicity at the base as the primary structure for my framework for understanding my experience of the world. Of course it's just a way of connecting the dots and is not actually what is. Anything describing reality, isn't reality. The best we can do is create models or frameworks that are more or less accurate, detailed, and comprehensive.
Thank you for sharing this. Unfortunately there are many important thinkers who could not be fit into this brief account. I have interviewed Donald before, so if you're interested in that interaction you can listen to it on my channel. Thank you for the suggestion of Ian McGilchrist's ideas, I will look into his work in the future.
Haha! Me too! My exact thoughts. Can’t concentrate atm so need my chill atmosphere with my cat on the lap :) thank you again for all these amazing videos. So thought provoking. Good vibes all around!
If we are to reject dualism and embrace monism, then there is only one intrinsic nature of reality. If that one intrinsic nature is consciousness, then consciousness is not only fundamental to reality, it is exhaustive of reality. This would entail idealism, but one can still be an idealist _and_ a panpsychist, like Timothy Sprigge.
@@metaRising Brilliant! I commend you for your conjunction of idealism and panpsychism, I think that is a formidable combination. In the future it would be interesting to hear your thoughts on other forms of idealism, like the pluralism of John McTaggart or the absolute idealism of F.H. Bradley.
I resonate with the idea neither consciousness nor matter are primary but perhaps both two sides of the same coin part of something deeper… We seem to rationalise reality from a particular perspective that is consciousness with in a framework of matter, space and time. The question of whether this particular perspective is the objective, literal or most accurate is difficult to know.
Nelson, thank you again for your hard work that brings us more insights in where we are at as developing human beings. Your synthesis of the evolution of science and philosophy encourages us to extract our own views on the world at large. Once more we are reminded of the limitations and deceptions of our physical senses. I have not witnessed anyone to bring such a clear and complete report of human endeavors in a half an hour elaboration.
In order to understand🧘Consciousness one must be fully🌅conscious🧠. Most people are not fully conscious, like those steeped in abstraction, but not awareness, that is far greater than mere consciousness. The☯️Way is being alert to Mind!
I think there is nothing special there. I mean for myself I realized in moment that if I want to know how much I am aware, I must have reference, right? Etc. bat have sonar. Low level sonar, basic frequency range can just be used to detect objects and distance not precisely in total dark or abnormal light conditions. Very high level sonar, wide range of frequencies can be used to detect large scale of objects with 1 nm precision, it goes trough objects depending on density so all material types and what is inside it can be known works in total dark or abnormal light conditions. Imagine you awaked somewhere in total darkness, you hear just that is some kind of wood...your aware here does not have any stand point and soon after, realize that it have only one left to do to survive, the FEAR! Actually that aware doing is a lot worse making chances even less. If bat somehow get to your home the only one who realizing who is to whose home is animal who have ability to realize such. You maybe don't like bats home at night cause of dark and scary, psychologically normal(humans). but for bat...he is picking also aware some flies to eat, and he does not care(cant realize that much) where but aware on level 2. It is just ability to think more faster than other animals. Reality must be accepted in order to find who we are.
Life, consciousness and self-awareness have been integrated from the beginning of proto-life; from the development of the initial self-replicating nucleus protected by a cell wall that allowed diffusion inward chemicals for energy production and outward of toxic materials. In a mass of available chemicals the proto-cell had the need to decide which energy producing material to allow in and which to deny access; in effect "I choose this one. I do not want that one" This would be the beginning of self-awareness and consciousness that developed in all life forms of the planet earth over the next 3.5 billion years acting in different ways in different life forms
Consciousness means origin of everything. Everything is inside it. There is nothing outside it. You are consciousness. Because; we cannot get behind consciousness-- Max Planck ( Noblest ) Silence is a state of observation of consciousness. Silence means pure observer. No gravity, no thought, no control; only supreme force; From there only all things can be seen arising. You are an image from the point of view of the experiences arising out of consciousness. From the perspective of that image, it has one mind, soul and ego. Otherwise; you are not your mind -- tolle You are not your body -- Eckhart tolle Nor are you nor your body -- Buddha The image is a dead thing -- krishnamurti You are awareness. Awareness is conscious connection with universal intelligence. Another word for it is presence: consciousness without thought. --- Eckhart tolle Our separation of each other is an optical illusion of consciousness. -- Albert Einstein
Everything takes place within consciousness. Everything we experience takes place within consciousness. We cannot peek around the corner of our experience to see if it matches some free-standing reality. Yet, there is a world that resists our desires. We don't get everything we want. Not everything we try works. Some things work. Some things don't work. Some things work better, some things don't work at all. It is the working that defines reality. An ongoing process.
Conciousness= knowing that your made up of light matter and light energy ,and dark energy and dark matter have to be controlled by our awareness by what we put in our body's as food to keep the dark in control,if not the dark overcomes you controls your thoughts and intuition
I am convinced that the fundamental "ground" of reality is "consciousness"; but this is just the beginning of the adventure... We will not throw away any of our knowledge... however we will have to recast part of it... and we will have to discover much more than what we were able up until now.
ALL IS CONSCIOUSNESS! The Universe/Multiverse is conscious, whether one believes so or not. Consciousness and existence are one and the same. "As Above, So Below ... As within, So without ... As the Universe, So the Soul" (Hermes Trismegistus).
Consciousness as fundamental to reality presumes the primary and independent existence of reality from consciousness. It is the other way around. Consciousness defines and. dictates what reality is. Our analytic ability to distinguish illusion from reality is born out of consciousness. Consciousness is a metaphysical reality, totally unknowable but shares itself with us and measured as intelligence.
Nice overview. But I can't believe you didn't cover the measurement problem in QM. One of the biggest indicators of the fundamental nature of awareness.
I believe that once you detach from the mind and body you are then only awareness. At that point you are able to design your awareness and this awareness will now materialize into your external reality….
Might this happened to every living being since the beginning of time but whatever not even with million years scientific progress or breakthrough we will pinpoint the truth of how that aspect of the universe works if it is one direction
This new, emerging paradigm, could possibly reinstate humanity's legitimate longing for 'ultimate' meaning. Thus enabling us to free ourselves from the shackles of 'scientism'.
I wonder how long it'll take humanity to understand that truth is consciousness. We're under one collected consciousness not a God for every culture. The church use to stake people who would say there was more than one sun or the Earth wasn't the center of the universe. Evolution is a fact you can't get around it. But none of that means there isn't a God, people just flip out & assert that's where someone is heading when they start talking about these things.
Understand the mirror and understand the complexities Of the equation that is earth Then project the power of the observer effect outwards And you have the complexities of the universe Energy is incredibly but it still follows the laws of mathematics Light ,energy , [mind is force ] direction ‘ intelligent design , mathematical equations, with intelligent direction . Understand energy like light effects everything everywhere like water taken from a river the river is never the same Man is conscious mankind is conscience Animals are conscious nature itself is conscience Together we create this world It’s an Eden or it’s a hell That is totally up to you You choose your present moment that creates your future moment Fish amen
Every particle is aware, conscious, of every other particle. No two particles exist in a universe alone, they must interact with each other. Even an apple is conscious of the gravity of the earth. Otherwise why would it fall? We are the Universe checking itself out.
Great video, although i dont see how faith plays into it. Faith being belief without evidence or even reason. If there is a flaw in materialism then looking for another way to explain conscienceness seems like the way to go and panpsychism seems to do that just fine.
When I first considered the idea that I am God I thought the idea was preposterous. Then, when I considered the idea that God is me, it seemed more reasonable. Now, I believe that God, Consciousness, I and Life are all the same thing.
We do not know what consciousness is. We do not know what matter is. What we know is what is,so it is what it is. But what it is, is what you are, For you alone know that it is, Which means that all I can know is myself, and myself in all I behold.
I don't think it's fundamental. In fact I don't even belive in consciousness. We take in information from our senses, not different from what a single celled organism does, and that give us the illusion of consciousness.
These theories are very old and even in the modern sense seem to have been consolidated by Plotinus almost 1900 years ago.Panpsychicism is a modern philosophical varient on panentheism, pantheism and pandeism which I suppose are theological ideas all 3 being very old predating the names given about 300 years ago.
God / consciousness responsible for all reality, and free will comes from consciousness / God, so God / consciousness responsibility needed for real free will
Conscious is all that exists and God is all that exists; infinite, and everywhere the same. The only possible conclusion based on this reality is that God is consciousness and consciousness is God: the ground of all being.
Why do we exist? Well if the alternative is complete nothingness, no experience, no matter, nothing. Does it make sense now? What is matter when there is nothing to experience it? on/off, consciousness/matter, life/death, black/white. This video really clicked some suspicions I had about the nature of consciousness.
I've come to believe that consciousness is fundemental and that Descartes got it backwards and maybe his conclusion should have been: "I am, therefore I think"
Whitehead’s theory is definitely relevant to this discussion. Unfortunately there wasn’t time to include all the relevant thinkers. Whitehead’s thinking is also highly sophisticated with many unique terms. Doing his ideas justice would require it’s own video.
This is the best video I have ever seen. And your way of explaining the history and the frontiers is a pure joy to listen to. I'm just curious, Gregory Bateson, where does he fit in all of this?
I am 85 now but I remember clearly the instant when I became conscient. It is like waking and be conscient of reality. I was then 9 months old, my mother told me years later.
Quantum physics can use a wave function to clearly explain nothing turns into something. The reality is there never is "nothing" instead what appears as nothing is a sea of virtual particles that continuously pop in and out of existence. Given the right interaction of virtual particles the probability is certain to "at some point" cause a reaction. So whether our observable universe came into existence from the other end of a black hole or inflation started from chance interaction of virtual particles it doesn't matter, because there is no such thing as nothing in a omniverse of infinite everythings
Consciousness as "the act of manifestation" is the True thing. It's the fundamental force that gives rise to experience and existence of all kind of forms and realities. Consciousness as "the imprinted memories", "perceptions" or "thinking" is by this unlimited and infinite act of manifestation between multiple layers and networks of co-working with itself. Consciousness as "the feeling" is by the combination of the previous two. "Matter" is just an illusion made by a complex, recursive and abstract system of thought.
Superb as usual. This is a wonderful overview of the history of, & the actual issues involved. Panpsychism is a great step forward insofar that its present fashionably clearly demonstrates that our favored metaphysics(materialism) is obviously flawed & desperately NEEDS a replacement. But, IMO a modern monistic analytical Idealism such as Bernardo "Kastrup's alters" is currently thE best game on the table. For anyone interested there is a pretty detailed overview of it in a new 7-part vid series on the Essentia foundation's YT channel.
@@metaRising Yup, a pretty fart smeller no doubt. It resonates with me. It could be that we'll never be certain what exactly is going on. But I am confident that we'll keep approaching truth. Slowly but surely even occasionally taking small steps backwards. So, at the heat death of the universe we'll be sure but also gone. 🤣
Pawww consciousness exists outside the body, and the body plugs into it. Consciousness exists outside of time, but the body exists inside time. Consciousness can move forward and back in time, but the mind can only be in the presence. Consciousness can influence feeling or thought, a mind can be influenced logically by a feeling or thought. A finite number of possible futures exists for any 1 mind in alternative realities, but your mind can only experience 1 reality from your perspective. Pawwww consciousness is a yes or no, combinations of these in the mind forms feelings resulting in different choices. Signal back, signal forward. We do it with signal but can only experience our presence. Consciousness can exist in all minds in multiple realities, however a mind can only perceive itself in one reality.
@@uweburkart373 I never did the LSD. The body is going to die so if the mind exists outside the body it could only be a copy of the information. The original mind will die and is bound by time, but can it go back in time with consciousness ? Objective ? Pawwww who can say
No it's absolute.. Everything is consciousness and it's manifestations only all materials, energies, forces are alive and respond to everything. We might not perceive everything because of limitations of nature for our own benefit. Imagine if our kids and children gets access to all money /account they would like to spend only for chocolate and enjoying.
no-one has ever experienced the universe without consciousness. i don't know if either the universe or consciousness are fundamental, but at least consciousness is more certain than the unvierse. i believe that consciousness is more fundamental than the universe.
You are right, Consciousness is fundamental. It was here before everything and it will be here after everything. Every single one of us is a divided consciousness, no matter where they are, i.e whether they are in this world or in this universe or other universe. We are all living at the same time or should I say, we are all conscious at the same time. There are no time differences anywhere, whether its in this universe or other universes. Time is the same for everything present anywhere and everywhere. It's just a difference in speed of communications per second or minute or hour or year. Time can be slowed or speed up for anything, but it will still be synced with the time everywhere, it will be synced with the time of consciousness everywhere and anywhere. We are all from a single consciousness but now we are divided in infinite things everywhere or anywhere and by anywhere I mean any world or universe or multiverse or infinite verse. Consciousness is everywhere and everything is conscious. This does not prove the existence of any god or gods. God, that can control everything and knows everything because its consciousness is divided now. For god or gods to control anything, they will have to make everything a single consciousness, then they or it will be able to control them and also know about them. I don't know if all these divided consciousness will become one in the future or not, and I don't know that either, if it was one before or not.
Consciousness should be considered an absolute knowing of not only self but even more so all things that exist outside of one's orbit. The desire to exercise conscious awareness being the sole purpose that the Supreme Intelligence decided to construct the realm of material physicality. Within the world of the " physical " Almighty God now possessing the capability to know itself through the five senses bestowed upon the myriad versions of this Divine Force. Free thinking man creates experience coming to know these experiences again through the utilization of the five sensory faculties. While the force of consciousness is singular in which each sentient entity is attached including Almighty God. As these occurrences flow through the conscious self not only does man learn more about himself through those experiences , The Supreme Intelligence too learns about absolute self reflecting upon these occurrences made manifest by the fractal versions of this divine essence ( mankind ) Nathan Barnes: Intellectual Physics
Wondering how Bernardo Kastrup was not acknowledged here, but that aside it is a valuable and artful primer via which to consider the primacy of consciousness. Thanks for creating and sharing it.
Barnardo is an interesting thinker, and I hope to have him on the podcast at some point. We appear to disagree in our valuation of panpsychism but there is a lot of common ground between us. Sadly, many important thinkers could not be mentioned here simply because of the constraints of time.
@@MonisticIdealism Well, idealism, insofar as it relates to cosmopsychism, is mentioned toward the end as a premise consistent with what Russell/Eddington were proposing. So whether one agrees with that or not, in considering idealism at all, BK's body of work seems surely worthy of mention. Maybe next time.
@@wanderingthepeaks I agree, Bernardo does seem noteworthy at least in relation to the cosmopsychism discussion, even though he argues against it. Another person I think is worth noting is Timothy Sprigge: he was an idealist _and_ a panpsychist. So it is possible to be both.
"There is no kind of framework within which we can find consciousness in the plural; this is simply something we construct because of the temporal plurality of individuals, but it is a false construction... The only solution to this conflict insofar as any is available to us at all lies in the ancient wisdom of the Upanishad... Vedanta teaches that consciousness is singular, all happenings are played out in one universal consciousness and there is no multiplicity of selves." - Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist
Gotta love how he casually disregarded basically as indigenous people as, not being serious thinkers. There are plenty of serious thinkers that think that rocks are conscious, but not in the same way, or to the same degree as something like a human. There is a slime mold that is better at engineering than human engineers using computers, despite having no neurons.
