consciousness creates reality (Introduction)

by dhw, Saturday, November 17, 2012, 12:36 (4390 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID has drawn our attention to websites claiming to prove through quantum mechanics that consciousness preceded material reality:-1. Consciousness either preceded all of material reality or is a 'epi-phenomena' of material reality.
2. If consciousness is a 'epi-phenomena' of material reality then consciousness will be found to have no special position within material reality. Whereas conversely, if consciousness precedes material reality then consciousness will be found to have a special position within material reality.
3. Consciousness is found to have a special, even central, position within material reality.
4. Therefore, consciousness is found to precede material reality.-My natural pedantry bids me inform the world that "a epi-phenomena" is linguistically impossible, which immediately makes me wonder why people choose such grandiose terms in the first place. It should be "an epi-phenomenon". I'm not going to pretend for one instant that I understand the proofs that follow, but I do understand the terms used above and wonder who defines what a "special position" is, and by what criteria, and what "a special position within material reality" actually means. In any case, some of us would say that consciousness is special, whether material or immaterial. -Here is a quote from Wikipedia:
"The physical measurements, equations, and predictions pertinent to quantum mechanics are all consistent and hold a very high level of confirmation. However, the question of what these abstract models say about the underlying nature of the real world has received competing answers."-If there is ever a consensus among quantum physicists that consciousness preceded material reality, I will take this article seriously.