Consciousness

Did matter somehow develop greater and greater complexity over time until eventually it became aware of it’s own existence? Or did consciousness exist first and need to create the physical Universe in order to have the experience of self awareness?

What came first, the chicken or the egg?

When one thing implies another, such questions are meaningless.

One side of a coin does not cause the other. Day does not cause night. The chicken does sort of cause the egg, but the egg also sort of causes the chicken.

When things exist because of each other, there is no cause and effect.

We like cause and effect because it help divide the Universe up into smaller and smaller bits and this seems to make it easier to understand, but every time we define a cause and effect relationship, we obscure the fact they are two different parts of the same thing.

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

The action and the reaction are two different parts of the same thing, and the “fact” that the action “causes” the reaction is a mental convenience that at it’s core creates the illusion that there is such a thing as cause and effect.

It’s all in how you look at it.

 

So….. Did matter somehow develop greater and greater complexity over time until eventually it became aware of it’s own existence? Or did consciousness exist first and need to create the physical Universe in order to have the experience of self awareness?

The answer is yes.

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