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Brief Synopsis (Consciousness Creates Reality)

The richness of human existence depends mostly on a person's ability to perceive their presence and their reason for being. The experience that person has of living as a being that has the skill to take part in elevated and conscious processing of thoughts is not an aspect that can be easily ignored. It is for this reason that a large amount of importance is placed on consciousness. It is an element that helps to gain a better understanding of the human mind. The following article will show that consciousness does create reality because the way that the two engage with each other impacts heavily on how people perceive their environment and subsequent actions.

Background

Image of the philosopher John Locke.

The origins of the modern idea of consciousness are often linked to The Essay Concerning Human Understanding written by John Locke. He was a philosopher from Britain whose ideas were most prevalent during the 17^th century. According to Locke, consciousness could be defined as the thoughts that pass through an individual’s mind. His arguments had a significant influence on the resulting view of consciousness and its power over human thought during the 18^th century. According to Locke, "when we see anything to be in any place in any instant of time, we are sure it will be that very thing,"^[1] suggesting that what a person thinks is what will manifest before his eyes. In this regard, Locke presented the first move towards defending the idea that consciousness was more critical in creating human reality than had previously been believed.

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Introduction to Levels Of Consciousness

As an experience, consciousness is something that is abstract and subjective which means that it is open to consistent interpretation as well as change. Consciousness has varying accessibility levels mainly depending on the approach taken by the observer. For instance, physicists see consciousness as an aspect that exists on three distinct levels.

1. The first is spatial while the second school of thought leans towards gaining an understanding of others while the other is futuristic. In this regard, consciousness describes the process of developing numerous feedback loops as a way for one to come up with a model of oneself in space in comparison to others during a particular time. The primary objective of this approach to learning the impact of an individual's consciousness is to achieve specific goals.
2. The second consciousness level describes that instance where one takes the collected information and uses it to have a better awareness of his or her surroundings as well as other people. For example, a plant understands other plants because it can absorb information regarding its surroundings and make the necessary adaptation. The plant then knows which direction it should lean to consume the most amount of sunlight. In the same way, animals can incorporate the sensory information they acquire from their environment to determine whether they are in danger. They are then in a position to react appropriately in the same way as human beings.
3. The third and most significant level of consciousness requires the utilization of the sensory data gained or imagined or wondering the extent to which change will occur as time continues. Here human beings use conscious cognition to reach a certain point of thinking using a brain that is highly developed. This suggests that the human mind, as well as a person's soul, play an integral role in determining one's reality. This assumption goes against the commonly held perception that the mind is the result of nature. Higher order consciousness then becomes a mixture of previous, current and future moments. The instruments used to carry out this process are the different feedback loops of sensory data that a human being takes in.

Human consciousness is increasingly being linked to the outside world in the sense that people are also impacting on reality. Scientific experiments are beginning to consider the idea that a person’s mind can both influence and develop the reality he or she is participating indicating that "consciousness is capable of existing in an extended or transcendent state in which it is not completely bound to the brain". This argument supports the idea of the power of a human's conscious mind and its ability to form a collective and unitary reality. When explaining the role that consciousness plays and its ability to develop reality, it is essential to have a general awareness of physics. Physics is separated into classical and quantum categories.

Physics Behind Consciousness

Classical physics includes the numerous rules that aim to govern how large bodies operate. Consider the laws that touch on acceleration, velocity or the physics that people use to understand a car crash. Each of these laws determines what human beings can perceive with their own eyes which roughly describes the field of classical physics.

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illustration of Double-Slit experiment

Quantum physics is distinct in the sense that it examines the behavior as well as laws of such particles as electrons. The behavior displayed by the particles can be challenging to understand. The Double Slit experiment is one of the most recognizable ways to not only outline the strange behavior of the particles but also how consciousness creates reality. In this experiment, a gun which shoots quantum electrons is situated before a screen that has two vertical slits. Behind is placed an additional screen for observing.The experiment is seen as unique because when the electron gun releases electrons through the first double slit screen, often the atom does not act similar to how particles are expected to when using traditional physics knowledge. Instead, they occur as waves meaning that the electrons. However, the behavior depicted by the particles often changes when examined through human consciousness.

• When performing and observing the double slit experiment through a conscious human mind, a distinct phenomenon takes place described as the collapsing of the wave function. Here the action of watching the electrons brings about changes to their behavior. This change means that atomic particles are evolving to a concrete form and place when there is a deliberate choice by the human consciousness to examine them.Thompson points out that in most instances, the fact that a growing number of scientists and researchers are accepting the fact that one's thoughts could create a physical reality.
• This means that human consciousness lies in the edge between quantum and classical physics.However, there is no precise knowledge of what happens to these energetic particles when there is no thoughtful examination.
• When placed in the context of human consciousness, this experiment shows that an individual's energetic intentions, feelings, and thoughts have a significant effect on one's surroundings. It also means that it is possible for one to reconsider his ideas on disease and health and the impact of the information shared with others existing within the same environment because "signal does not have to reach the brain for Mind to intercede because Mind exists throughout the body". Therefore, every conceivable element which has occurred before and what will happen later in this universe is made up of the same material. Every person is unique and carries an identity as well as an ego. It does not mean separateness. Every human being is linked to the other because they share a divine consciousness which often acts as a bridge between spirituality and material science.

Continued...

Scientists reproducing the double-slit experiment would argue that a person observing the electron would compel it to take a definite position. In this regard, the results are often because the person has willed the particle to act in a certain way. Therefore, the device serves as an extension of this person's consciousness. This aspect has pushed some scientists to argue that in the absence of consciousness, the universe would likely exist as a sea made up of quantum potentiality. In other words, it is impossible for physical reality to survive without any subjectivity. According to the participatory anthropic principle, without any consciousness, it is impossible for physical matter to occur. The main argument in this instance is that any universe that humans can imagine which is missing conscious, observers can be immediately ruled out. Consciousness forms the basis of being which means that it must have existed before the physical universe. Therefore, consciousness is responsible for the creation of the physical world.

• This argument has significant implications for how human beings can understand the link with the external world. An individual can, therefore, generate the physical universe using his subjectivity. A person could see such aspects as temperature and color in his environment, but often it is because this person has had thoughts about these elements. In the general sense, it is impossible to be sure of the occurrence of an outside universe. Beginning in the 1920s, experiments in quantum physics have revealed that results often always depend on whether there is a deliberate approach to observation. At present, a growing number of researchers are beginning to accept an alternative perspective to this observation that is more rational.The current assumption is that reality is not responsible for life as it is, but instead, an individual and his consciousness have developed the unique aspects that constitute one's environment.
• Quantum mechanics is often seen as the most effective tool for physicist when it comes to describing the atom. However, it provides the most persuasive arguments that show conscious perceptions are vital to the way the universe works. Thompson indicates that most thoughts are, "a collection of the energies of virtual substances in a cloud around a given center," pointing to the fact that the way a human being organizes these energies often determines the outcome of their reality. According to the uncertainty principle, an unobserved object, such as an electron, often only exists in a state that is not only blurry but also unpredictable. It does not have a set-out location or movement until the minute that someone observes it. Physicists, therefore, refer to the phantom condition that has not yet become a wave function. The argument in this instance is a person's careful observation of an electron's movement might push it to move from an imagined element to something that is definite with actual polarity.

Before The Experiment

Before the dual slit experiment, the vast majority of physicists believed in the existence of an objective universe that worked independently. The uniqueness of quantum reality is not the only actual argument against the old perception of reality. One's thoughts can determine what their reality is and whether it is positive or negative. When people allow their ideas to flow naturally, their physical environment often ends up aligning with their thoughts resulting in happiness, joy as well as wisdom.

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Closing Remarks

• In conclusion, consciousness creates reality as shown in such experiments as the Dual Slit. For many years before the dual slit experiment, the general agreement among scientists and researchers across different fields was the existence of an objective and independent universe. The quantum field has a large amount of information which could only be waiting for the human imagination to determine its behavior. In turn, this reconstruction helps to identify what the person will feel about his environment. It then seems that when a person trusts their thought process to operate smoothly without any interference, it often leads to a reality where the individual sees and feels positive emotions such as happiness and love. It is critical for bridges to be developed between spirit and science, or the inner and outer realities to show that these worlds are not only linked to each other but that they flow from one to the other.