What is Consciousness?

Dr. Avtar Singh has authored and published a new book entitled- "The Hidden Factor: An Approach for Resolving Paradoxes of Science, Cosmology and Universal Reality". The book was motivated by his personal interest in pursuing a scientific search for understanding reality, purpose, and meaning in the universe.


About the Program

During this program Dr. Singh explains the role of consciousness in explaining the observed behavior of the universe and resolving its mysteries. The conventional science fails to reveal purpose in the universe since it ignores consciousness and deals only with the inanimate matter in its theoretical formulations. The consciousness prevailing in the spontaneous universal phenomena provides for its purpose and the meaning of life in its fundamental eternity, omnipresence, and free will. Dr. Singh discusses scientific answers to questions such as: What is the relationship between understanding the universe and understanding the human mind, consciousness, and religion? What are the philosophical perspectives of the results of this new understanding? Does the universe and life have a purpose and meaning? What causes stress and suffering? What is the role of mind? Is their free will, or is it all pre-ordained fate? How to live a stress-free and fulfilled life?

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[theroamingfoot]

You do realize of course, Dr. Singh, that your understanding of consciousness would violate the Law of Conservation of Mass/Energy. In order for a thought to be motivated by spontaneous energy, with no previous, external cause, that energy would have to be created all on its own, something any respectable physicist would scoff at.

[allisone00]

Spontaneity is a degree of freedom (misdefined as randomness) that exists in nature. No respectable physicists can ignore the spontaneity of wave-particle duality, spontaneity of mass-energy equivalence, spontaneous expansion of the universe, spontaneous decay of the atom etc., which are all well-known physical phenomena having inherent spontaneity or consciousness or free will. None of them violate the laws of conservation. An awakening is needed for inanimate physics to become lifelike.

[archdeaconj]

We have here the interesting notion that (to put it crudely) elementary particles manifest some kind of rudimentary free WILL. At the same time, it is the WILL of the observer, at some deep level of his being, that collapses the probability wave function of the particle so that it behaves in this way rather than that. Does this represent a kind of negotiation, as it were, a battle one could almost say, between particle and observer?

[kasbushkaahma]

i dont even know what the comments mean

[ManyInfiniteComments]

I have no problems believing in god, just not a "god" or any other human made up explanation that defines it. When people venture towards a god, it's usually their cultural region specific god with alot of human baggage and emotion. Since we cannot prove the existence of god we can only go by what we can detect, any other "feeling" is biased. We all have feelings but last time I check humans tend to do crazy things including killing each other because of "feelings".

[superjew1000]

Hello I am intreastead in every point of view on this matter please pm me and we will talk about this like gentlemen.

[olunda]

On the questionable premise of free will, he builds his argument from ignorance.

Doesn't hold water.

[musicequalstruth]

This doesn't make a lot of sense. Instead check out:

Dr. John Hagelin and the Discovery of the Unified Field

to better understand the nature of consciousness and it's role in the structure of the universe.

[Austyg]

What does he mean? What is a phenomenon "at its on"?

[Austyg]

4:36 "That what [visum sic] I call consciousness. It is that physical phenomena that induces a change at its ON, and I recognize that . . ."

[NavinJohnson90]

That's perception. Though. That is not consciousness. Nice try trying to sound smart though.

[Sueezedtight]

Likely more related to interpretive skills.

The perception of the event affects the outcome by molding it to the perspective of the observer.

Free will is illusory, in the sense that we can affect cosmic energy flow. We can partake of it and by our presence, be part of the overall ramifications. Since we cannot opt ou" of the process, consciousness is just the awareness and recognition of what we are and how we must be.

That recognition is part of the process as well as our evolutionary nature.