Bugbear
Let us make it simple.
If you do not perceive anything, as far as you are concerned universe and people do not exist—but only you—the consciousness exist! That means this universe, life and the life-support systems have meaning only if you the consciousness exists. In other words, these objective world came into existence for the sake of consciousness. That means consciousness is primary and the physical world is secondary. What I meant is that when we put things in their right order, life becomes meaningful!
We cannot simply leave everything to the senses. We take for granted how our mind puts everything together. When we dream everything we see seem as real as everyday life. Our mind somehow create this spatio-temporal experience out of electrochemical information. Now come to the real life--life as we know it is defined by this spatial-temporal logic, which traps us in the universe with which we’re familiar. Like my dream, the experimental results of quantum theory confirm that the properties of particles in the “real” world are also observer-determined.
Loren Eiseley once wrote: “While I was sitting one night with a poet friend watching a great opera performed in a tent under arc lights, the poet took my arm and pointed silently. Far up, blundering out of the night, a huge Cecropia moth swept past from light to light over the posturings of the actors. ‘He doesn’t know,’ my friend whispered excitedly. ‘He’s passing through an alien universe brightly lit but invisible to him. He’s in another play; he doesn’t see us. He doesn’t know. Maybe it’s happening right now to us.’”
Like the moth, we can’t see beyond the footlights. The universe is just life’s launching-pad. But it won’t be rockets that take us the next step. The long-sought Theory of Everything was merely missing a component that was too close for us to have noticed. Some of the thrill that came with the announcement that the human genome had been mapped or the idea that we’re close to understanding the Big Bang rests in our innate human desire for completeness and totality. But most of these comprehensive theories fail to take into account one crucial factor: WE’RE CREATING THEM. It’s the biological creature that fashions the stories, that makes the observations, and that gives names to things. And therein lies the great expanse of our oversight, that until now, science hasn’t confronted the one thing that’s at once most familiar and most mysterious – consciousness.
Reality is simply an information system that involves our consciousness. Until we understand ourselves, we will continue to blunder from light to light, unable to discern the great play that blazes under the opera tent. Now return to the first para: In other words, these objective world came into existence for the sake of consciousness. That means consciousness is primary and the physical world is secondary. What I meant is that when we put things in their right order, life becomes meaningful!
