Dark Matter - Consciousness

Dark matter is, by definition, something we cannot observe or see using normal methods since it doesn’t reflect or absorb light: it’s invisible. It exists in-between and around the things we call 'matter', undetectable by normal methods.

In short, the scientific community still does not understand what exactly consciousness and experience is – this is often referred to as 'The Hard Problem of Consciousness'. Where does consciousness live in the body or brain? What’s it made from? Where does this consciousness thing (the Greeks called this the soul or psyche) go when we die? My suggestion is that consciousness is, in fact, made up of dark matter. We seem to have two invisible and mysterious substances baffling scientists – is it so ludicrous to suggest that they might be related?

Physics is, in fact, already being used as a tool to try and understand consciousness. I am simply suggesting that another prong of the Physics toolbox (i.e. all the research going towards the study of dark matter) be employed to study the mystery of consciousness. Going even further, could we pull the theory of panpsychism from the fringes, and suggest that ALL matter has a consciousness inherent to it? If 'energy cannot be created nor destroyed' then surely this is true for dark matter too, meaning that the consciousness of every bit of matter that exists or has ever existed is perhaps out in the Universe, holding galaxies together and expanding our Universe.

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