Human consciousness is often brushed aside by scientists in favor of more “relevant” subjects of inquiry.
But is this dismissal warranted? Or is science missing out on a key component of the universe, one that is intrinsically tied to everything else? One “off the beaten path” California college aims to investigate what many scientists shy away from.
“Consciousness was traditionally treated by what [psychologist] William James called ‘tough-minded scientists’ or ‘hard-nosed empiricists’ as trivial, or non-existent, or at best what’s technically called an epiphenomenon—something that’s just produced by the brain somehow but doesn’t mean anything,” said Dr. Allan Leslie Combs, who is developing a consciousness studies Ph.D. program at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS)….