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Is consciousness a fundamental force, like gravity or electromagnetism? known as panpsychism, suggests that consciousness, in some rudimentary form, is everywhere. A single atom might have an incredibly simple form of consciousness, and our complex human consciousness arises from the collective integration of all these tiny conscious bits. The brain, therefore, doesn't create consciousness, but rather serves as a kind of antenna or orchestrator for it.

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This has been my intuitive model for consciousness since I was about 16, but the real answer is, "we don't know." I also never regarded the brain as being something which interacts with consciousness as an antenna or orchestrator, but rather, then it is just doing its brain stuff (controlling the body, making value judgments, receiving input from the senses, and so forth) and that the by this fundamental property of consciousness, that brain stuff is 'being experienced.'

Also, Galileo's Error is a cool title for a book.