Speculations about Intelligent Consciousness

 Sometimes, when a person has a brain operation, the doctors will set up a mirror for him so that he can see the doctors operate on his own brain. If it is true that only consciousness can collapse a wave function to a particle and make a person able to view the physical world, then that person's consciousness must be causing the physical properties of his own brain. If that is true, then consciousness has to be something other than brain function. Perhaps consciousness and brain function work together to cause a person to be able to experience the physical world as being material.  

In addition, as the operation proceeds, that person views his brain in that fleeting moment of the present called the "now." The "now" persists, but the operation moves from the future through the "now" into the past. His expectation that the doctors will perform the operation correctly, and his remembrance of the work they have already done forms the passage of time for him. His expectation of the future, and his remembrance of his past forms his being in time, but his being in time must pass through his "now" for it to form. If he dies on the operating table, his "now" disappears and so does his being in time, at least as it passes through his body is concerned.

All of this can only mean that an active consciousness must always be limited to the "now" with the future and the past in the periphery of the "now." Consciousness has to be stationary, and only the world and all of human experience moves through the "now." The expectation of the future and the remembrance of the past is locked into the "now." The future can change and the past remains the same, but both can only be apprehended by the stationary consciousness that is the human present.

But humans are also intelligent. As the changeable future passes through the stationary consciousness of the "now," it becomes the past which has also been made stationary by consciousness. Because of this, human consciousness can use its experiences to form stationary ideas which it can manipulate to form systems of ideas which can be very useful and beneficial for oneself and others. But humans can only be creative because they possess free will in the "now."

But what about a universe in which no conscious "now" exists? Such a universe could possess no future or past. At best, it could only be a potential universe; that is, a singularity with no time or space. This means that if any universe exists in time, space, and reality, it must possess an intelligent Consciousness that can establish a stationary "now." But such a universe could not depend on a limited consciousness, like that of a human, to remain in reality because an unknown in the changeable future could extinguish that consciousness. In order for such a universe to maintain an eternal reality, it must possess an Infinite Consciousness that has already passed its entire future into a stationary past, and therefore, knows absolutely everything that can be known. But at the same time, this Infinite Consciousness passes through its "now" to form an eternal reality. God must exist. Hebrews 11:3 (KJB).