How do the brain’s objective, physical processes - such as neural activity and biochemical reactions - give rise to the deeply subjective and personal experiences we call consciousness? In other words, how does the brain, as a physical system, create or transform these electrical and chemical signals into subjective phenomena like thoughts, emotions, and sensations?
Ultimately, it is just the opposite: Universal consciousness itself expresses phenomenal mind and matter (brain).
As Vedic educator Maharishi Mahesh Yogi explains, " “The reality of the path is that consciousness is produced by activity of the brain. The reality of the goal is that the brain is born of consciousness.”
(1974 quote in Pointless: The Reality behind Quantum Theory, Routledge, 2021, RW Boyer).
Open access/full text papers on ResearchGate.net by RW Boyer describe the consciousness-mind-matter relationship in detail.
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