real is only real when it becomes real . . .

consciousness is a universal force

What if consciousness isn't produced by the brain at all? What if the brain is simply a receiver or filter, like a radio tuning into a signal that already exists? This idea flips the conventional understanding of consciousness on its head. Instead of the brain creating awareness, it may be that consciousness is a universal force, something that exists independently of ties into theories like panpsychism, which suggests that consciousness is a fundamental aspect of all matter down to the smallest particles.

In this view, consciousness doesn't just arise in humans or animals, it's embedded in everything. The atoms in your body, they possess a form of awareness. The particles that make up the stars, they too have some rudimentary form of consciousness. If this sounds bizarre, consider that quantum physics has already shown us that particles behave differently when observed as if reality depends on some form of interaction with consciousness. But here's the real mind bender, what if our consciousness doesn't just perceive reality, but creates it?

Some interpretations of quantum mechanics suggest that the universe is not fully determined until it's observed. The particles exist in a state of probability until consciousness collapses them into a defined reality. If this is true, then consciousness isn't just passive. It's an active force that shapes the world around us. This is where things get even stranger.

If reality is shaped by consciousness, we must ask, what was the universe like before there were any conscious beings to observe it? Was it a sea of endless possibilities waiting to be brought into existence? Or could it be that the universe only really began when consciousness arrived to interact with it? Quantum mechanics already challenges our understanding of reality with its multiverses, superpositions, and paradoxes like Schrodinger's cat, both alive and dead at the same time until someone opens the box to observe it. These strange phenomena suggest that reality doesn't behave in a way that makes sense to our everyday experiences.

But some physicists have proposed that reality is even stranger. The universe only becomes real when we look at it.