You are not just a machine, a biological robot in a meaningless Universe.

• You are not your brain.
• You are not your genes.
• You are not your body.

 
You are consciousness—fundamental, irreducible, and eternal.
 
The father of modern physics, Max Planck said this:

"I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness."

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Planck was the founder of quantum science, PhD at age 21, Nobel prize in 1918, and spent his genius life probing the atom and subatomic world. Other important physicists, such as Niels Bohr, Alan Turing, Werner Heisenberg, John Wheeler, and Eugene Wigner have arrived at similar views.
 
Quantum mechanics isn’t just philosophy. It's physics that's proven by experimentation pointing to a Universe that is mental, not mechanical.
 
(Planck's experiment that resulted in his conclusion is called the double slit experiment where mere observation changed the behavior of particles. Fully explained online.)
 
If you try to wade into the quantum mechanics lingo, it will give you a headache:
 
"Matter isn’t solid or fixed—it’s probabilistic and doesn’t even “exist” in any definite way until it's observed. Observation—the act of conscious awareness—collapses probability into the material reality we can see. Particles do not have definite properties until they are observed. That is, reality doesn’t fully exist until a mind participates in it. The underlying field of reality is consciousness itself—and matter is a product of that consciousness."
 
Consciousness is fundamental and preeminent

• Consciousness comes first—not atoms, not energy, not space, not time, not Big Bang.

 

• Matter comes from consciousness, not the other way around.

 

• Consciousness isn’t in the universe. The universe is in consciousness.

 

• Consciousness isn't a by-product of matter, it's the source of it.

 
Government has a vested interest in what we believe
 
We have all been taught in materialistic government schools that "science" says we are nothing but matter. Anything contrary is painted as hooey. This serves the government's objective of distracting us from our own minds and independence. Like herded cattle, we rely on government promises, military, handouts, health edicts, protection from asteroids, and salvation on Mars when we destroy Earth.
 
If government can convince us we are nothing but biological robots, we can be controlled just like robots. And control is government's primary objective.
 
The materialist doctrines we're taught to believe can't explain consciousness

• Abiogenesis (spontaneous generation: life springing from nonlife) is false because lifeless matter cannot generate conscious life.

 

• Evolution, which depends on mechanical, blind processes, cannot explain consciousness or moral awareness.

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​Physical reality is machinery requiring conscious causation
 
Quanta, atoms, molecules, and organisms are all complex functional machinery.
 
Complex functional machinery has only one possible reason to exist: intelligence.

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Molecular machinery in cells

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We already know what Planck discovered
 
We know we are conscious, self-aware, intuitive, conscience-driven, have free will, and are something other than the atoms in our head, fingers, and toes.
 
Our earliest memory of self is identical to our sense of identity through all the decades of life. People in their 90s and above say they are still the same person they were as a small child. Yes, experience and learning accumulate, but the underlying I remains the same.
 
Our invisible self is the most certain thing we can ever know.
 
Where consciousness comes from
 
The modern scientific worldview promoted by governments, their educators, and the media tells us consciousness is an accident—a glitch that emerged from lifeless atoms through chance over time. In this view, you are nothing more than a material brain housing chemical reactions and electricity.
 
That belief brainwashed into us is absent any proof:
 

• Nobody knows what initiates the 60,000 or so thoughts that pop into the mind each day.

 

• Nobody knows how thoughts are sequenced and appear one by one rather than all at once driving us crazy.

 

• Nobody can point to a location in the brain where thoughts come from.

 

• Nobody can point to a chemical reaction in the brain that creates a thought.

 

• Nobody can disprove ESP, near-death and out-of-body experiences, psychic communication with the dead, remote viewing, reincarnation, precognition, and other preternatural events pointing to mind outside of matter.

 
AI machines cannot replace us
 
You can't get self-aware free-willed consciousness from plastic, metal, and silicone or from information in a string of 0s and 1s code.
 
Alan Turing, the father of computer science, found that a machine can simulate the output of thinking, but not the experience of thinking or the free will to do so. Computation is not consciousness. So, while AI may out compute us, it will never become us.
 
Remember, as Planck and others have discovered, matter cannot create consciousness. A computer or robot is made of matter so, by definition, they cannot create consciousness. AI can only be a mirror reflecting human consciousness back at us, but never generating its own.
 
The real you
 
You are not just a machine made of meat. You are not an evolved biological robot resulting from eons of accumulated mutational damage. You are not a transient spark in a dying meaningless universe.
 
You are a nonmaterial conscious being directing your material brain. You are a knower that your essence is other than the atoms in your body-- if materialistic beliefs don't get in the way. That knowing doesn’t come from neurons, atoms, or algorithms. It comes from something beyond your physical body, the real immortal you.
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