When I was asking those questions, I hadn’t fully understood the dream character. Consciousness experiences the world through the dream character, not directly. The only experience I have directly is knowingly being aware. This is the only real experience we have ever had. The rest are conditioned stories of the mind and perception. In fact, there is no mind, and consciousness is simply aware of itself! This is the end of ignorance and the illusion of a separate self ❤
An outstanding explanation by Rupert. There is no such thing as a decision. Stuff happens and the mind claims credit for it a split second after it happens by superimposing the concepts of I and choice. The itch gets scratched and very quickly the mind claims 'I chose to scratch that itch'. The illusion of choice is not so very hard to create. Consider a video game, it appears the characters in it are making choices. They aren't. Electricity does not choose the path of least resistance. No electron has ever chosen to jump to a different shell. "Decision" is only a superimposition of the mind; in truth, all change is just a happening, no decider can be found because no decider exists.
And what is mind ?? Mind doesn’t exist but we keep talking about it all time - perceptions, feelings, emotions, memory….. mysterious to me. Unable to get satisfactory answer from any quarters🤫
I once saw through my eyes but it was not me, it was awareness aware of itself. Then I saw a thought appearing from nothing just like when we look at the sky and see a shooting star crossing the sky. As soon as I made the thought mine awareness vanished and I was back in shock of what I had just experienced. I felt as if for the first time I had open the curtains and saw the world how it really is. There is not separation just only one awareness experiencing different perspectives in a dream.
I’ve experienced this too. It’s really crazy for the first time. You lose awareness of your physical being. You forget yourself as a human. You become pure awareness.
The "I lost it" is again just another thought. Awareness is staring at *that* particular thought now. It's like standing with your face against a wall. The wall has a giant *I* on it and it's being stared at and contemplated. Nothing wrong with that, just saying.
I've tripped out on this for so long. Cause like even just the idea of choosing to turn your attention away from the content of experience implies a separate self choosing to turn away, yet in the act of turning away we realized there is no separate self in the first place. It's a paradox and I appreciate him saying it's unanswerable
Me too. Rupert does not understand, I think, that sometimes he is being too absolutist. Look at the video Is There Personal Responsibility? It is true that there is no separate entity responsible for actions because it does not exist. But consciousness is kind of responsible because it is free! It’s a dance between duality and non-duality.
I get it. The question is a statement in the form of a question. It states, there is a separate decision maker... Answering it only makes that SEEM true.
On listening is like ...searching for the thing called mind...and it is not... Got shocked... Ruperts explanation are always so Direct and like a spark... Thankyou for the question also...it helped a lot ...
You don't see the law of gravity but you see its effects it has on the universe. You can consider us a "law of the universe" that governs how the universe changes. When you look, you don't see you, but you see the effects that you have had on the universe. This answer satisfies me.
Love it. And conscious seeking to know itself is not a problem in any way. But its delusional when the mind *identifies* with that time bracketed separation thought.
If you look the finite mind as a function of conciousness, then you can see that the mind is not working at the present moment, but instead, it's recognizing what is already past by definition. In that sense you could say that what is apparently your decision, is just a function of the mind that fullfills the present with the "i" sense. Infinite present is created out from nothing, and the mind is recognizing unconsciously what already is. A few miliseconds later, that function tells you that you where chosing what indeed already exists. There are no wrong desitions.
the modulation of the awareness looked through a small window by itself, where it is both the camera and the display is a thought of an individual. a combined thought would be a single thought where it's a joint of eating icecream + drinking coffee filtered by 2 mobile screen, 1 person is eating icecream thought, other person is drinking coffee thought. Extrapolate that.... all possible thoughts happening at once, only split by the screen into multiple sane thought to an individual.
To quote Sri Ramana Maharishi, ' A Parameswara Sakthi ' sets the events rolling on. He meant, I believe, a software kind of net allows events to happen where all constituents participate the coming into fruition of the next event goaded by the focusing light of Consciousness which is by itself non-participatory! He never mentioned a deciding God in person!
Thank you! If the brain needs to additional oxygen it induces me to decide go out from the room. The same refer to human's every activity. Our freedom and decisions is the result of necessity.
"The space in your kitchen is not in your kitchen" of course it is. I have defined my kitchen so everything in my kitchen also the 3d space in my kitchen is part of my kitchen and is therefor my kitchen.
I think what Rupert is saying is that "kitchen" is arbitrary and not a "real" thing. The space (from the perspective of the finite mind) is real, it is only a kitchen because there is a house there and that space has a certain layout and objects being held within that space. The space is more fundamental than the kitchen is, therefore it is your kitchen that is in the space, not space within your kitchen.
Decisions 🤔… Egotistically, the root impetus underlying all ‘choices’ is mostly a reflexive response to either desire or fear 👀! Which ever ‘choice’ is made leads to dramatically different ‘life’ experiences 😮 When I ask ‘source’, “What would love do NOW?” THIS choice moves life in yet another different direction 🤔 Lucid mindfulness as opposed to a reflexive reaction ‘appears’ as free will…. Finite or Infinite consciousness? 👀?
I wonder if what we perceive as ‘choice’, then, is a consequence of how and to what focus is attuned, or what our awareness is aligned to? Reminds me of Jung’s quote, ‘you don’t have ideas, ideas have you…’
Who are we? How can we define what we call the self, that which truly exists beneath the false social construct. To me, there are three main aspects to our existence: 1. Existence itself 2. Consciousness 3. Heart (Soul) the guiding force of the divine within. The heart represents the centre or the core of our being, which connects us to our origin ( the divine mother ). The heart is the source where divine love eminates, and it is where the breath of life resides within our being, it is also where the self resides. It is also where the presence of the divine resides and its presence is simply divine bliss.
I would say....live as if one has freewill and respond as if one doesn't. Thus action is based on what's best in the moment and response is based on whatever the outcome has brought forth.
@DorinaMary what is choice based on? It's based on past experiences, memory, and knowledge, that one has accumulated. Therefore, choice is not 'yours' it's based on past conditionings, preferences, biases, and prejudices and reaching for a certain outcome in life. Be it reward or punishment. But remember that choice is bast on the past, not 'your' past but the past of ones thought patterns. Not only this but also the genetic conditioning that is coded within this body mind. So the question is not whether I have freewill, but rather what determines the choices that is made?
I like thinking of consciousness that way too, it’s really our ego/finite mind. I use the term awareness for the infinite mind. Rupert did this for a while.
The entire consciousness paradigm of infinite/finite is a concept that is not provable. That's why there is no answer. So my question is: what does one expect to gain from knowing which or who makes decisions?
Benefit: one is limited and selfish and separate and struggling to survive, and miserable. The Other is loving, sharing, connecting, creating and happy!
Only God exists,there is no personal self to make choices, but we believe there is..Ego, and for good or bad it makes choices, God who is pure Love wouldn't cause suffering but has made the laws of the Universe that may cause it if used wrongly, like a knife made from metal ore that formed in the ground, use it to cut a slice of bread or use it to kill. P.S.God love tea, PG tips that is, in UK .but let the bag stew for a bit..not too much milk.. and A FLAT half a teaspoon of demerara sugar, the perfect choice....thanks....
in other words (and when can words ever suffice?), there are no choices to be made. 'Walking' a street in a dream, are you actually turning 'left' or 'right'? Assuming choice is possible is an attempt at validating oneself /projection can as a reality exist as an individual 'apart from'. Perhaps the closest that can be said is that one-ly, God IS, and as such, there is not to choose 'between', only Knowing [as in God knowing of ItSelf)... if I don't see God/Christ 'in' the next 'person' I meant, I shant bother look any further.
Consciousness never forgets Itself, EVER! No one makes decisions, because there is no separate self there. There are no finite objects. There is only Pure Consciousness, (not the words) the alive “stuff,” that is present fact. There is only this one Now, and It has no history, no even of being Now before. What-Is, or Now, is ever present, ever new, but has nothing to do with time or timelessness. One cannot start with what appears as the human picture with the aim of arriving at the Infinite Itself. Rupert, there are no separate minds at all. To the Infinite, there is only Itself, the Infinite.
It's hilarious how these intellectuals describe the mechanics of this so called awakening, when even a halfwit knows the description is and can never be the described, probably people listening get a lift out of it, think they are getting deep into the awakening journey only to find out the lift or this hit quickly fades and the old self reasserts itself. This podcast as many others are just intellectual gymnastics. Talking "never does it" silence is who we are, and the gateway...so to speak...yes more words...silence..silence..
Hola ¡ no sembla pas tant complicat: Aixo no sabut en absolut sense nàixer ni canviar ha aparegut és aquí igual a com es aquesta Vida. Jo soc Aixo no sabut visquen aquesta Vida en les seves condicions per un temps , canvi constant, de cicle de Vida: aparèixer créixer madurar i anar-se'n . Se'n va el jo social cultural es queda el Jo no sabut absolut que sóc però ja sense personalitat
These two jokers are talking as if consciousness is an object and its own entity. And they saying without explaining how the object of consciousness derived, except for saying it's infinite and even not explaining how consciousness is an infinite of it's own Being. Thats like saying consciousness was Born first before the intelligent specie physical body and brain was Born. They dont even realise that the whole Universe Formed at random, and random means " DONE WITHOUT CONSCIOUS DECISION". Hello! What these jokers are saying is Consciousness Being appeared before the whole the Universe. Now we all know that consciousness requires a Form faculty to be a part of and the Universe does not require consciousness because the universe is random which means the Universe does not require to be aware nor survive nor evolve therefore the Universe does not require to even implement consciousness as a recall tool for a previous experience thats been stored to be recalled so as to give it some thought at a later date for a resolution. The Universe does not need to do all that. Going by all that, what these jokers are really saying is that consciousness Being was there before the Big Bang. What they think is that when the Big Bang sparked and a big, let's say explosion happened, they think that the elements that fused which caused the spark was the work of consciousness. That is basically what they are saying and that is because they dont have a clue how the formulae of elements react and create a random reaction. And therefore they just offer more confusion and more questions with no end result, hence the heading " Does Consciousness Make Decisions?" which is just a made up heading for content an resolves nothing. It shouldn't even be a question. But I have answered the question.
Ruperts explanation has been demonstrated scientifically. Decades ago experiments showed that, when a testperson is asked to press a button to turn a lamp on and off, when deciding themselves to do so, surprisingly, the nerve/muscle activity started milliseconds before the brain activity in the decission center of the brain, every time. We actually experience something similar, when we do something unfortunate, only to ask ourselves “Why did I do that?”. But most of the time, we rationalise that our actions are what we decided, while most of the detailed actions in a day, actually happens without thinking about it. The illusion is deep.
When I was asking those questions, I hadn’t fully understood the dream character. Consciousness experiences the world through the dream character, not directly. The only experience I have directly is knowingly being aware. This is the only real experience we have ever had. The rest are conditioned stories of the mind and perception. In fact, there is no mind, and consciousness is simply aware of itself! This is the end of ignorance and the illusion of a separate self ❤
Well put! ❤
Brilliant analysis and very helpful....thanks.
This is much clearly stated...as it's resonates...
But though intellect understood a bit...yet the attachment to the story is huge...😢
Yess Dear, yessss 🙏
memories, thoughts believed once upon a time in the stories which made emotional constructions seeming so solid ? That's how it's undrestood here 🙏💕
An outstanding explanation by Rupert.
There is no such thing as a decision. Stuff happens and the mind claims credit for it a split second after it happens by superimposing the concepts of I and choice. The itch gets scratched and very quickly the mind claims 'I chose to scratch that itch'. The illusion of choice is not so very hard to create. Consider a video game, it appears the characters in it are making choices. They aren't.
Electricity does not choose the path of least resistance. No electron has ever chosen to jump to a different shell. "Decision" is only a superimposition of the mind; in truth, all change is just a happening, no decider can be found because no decider exists.
This is a great rephrasing of what Rupert is saying. Thanks 👍 Need to get your comment to the top really
Bang. Bang. Bang. Excellent
And what is mind ?? Mind doesn’t exist but we keep talking about it all time - perceptions, feelings, emotions, memory….. mysterious to me. Unable to get satisfactory answer from any quarters🤫
@rkowlagi experience is always precisely what it is. Mind is the field in which experience happens.
I once saw through my eyes but it was not me, it was awareness aware of itself. Then I saw a thought appearing from nothing just like when we look at the sky and see a shooting star crossing the sky. As soon as I made the thought mine awareness vanished and I was back in shock of what I had just experienced. I felt as if for the first time I had open the curtains and saw the world how it really is. There is not separation just only one awareness experiencing different perspectives in a dream.
I’ve experienced this too. It’s really crazy for the first time. You lose awareness of your physical being. You forget yourself as a human. You become pure awareness.
And this proves what? I already know that we have a 1st person experience but who says it will transcend you.
The "I lost it" is again just another thought. Awareness is staring at *that* particular thought now. It's like standing with your face against a wall. The wall has a giant *I* on it and it's being stared at and contemplated. Nothing wrong with that, just saying.
Thia was a powerful one. Masterful explanation.
I've tripped out on this for so long. Cause like even just the idea of choosing to turn your attention away from the content of experience implies a separate self choosing to turn away, yet in the act of turning away we realized there is no separate self in the first place. It's a paradox and I appreciate him saying it's unanswerable
Me too. Rupert does not understand, I think, that sometimes he is being too absolutist. Look at the video Is There Personal Responsibility? It is true that there is no separate entity responsible for actions because it does not exist. But consciousness is kind of responsible because it is free! It’s a dance between duality and non-duality.
"There is no answer" - I like this answer.
I get it. The question is a statement in the form of a question. It states, there is a separate decision maker... Answering it only makes that SEEM true.
As soon as a 'word' is used already separation has happened. Decisions are made before words....so words are reactions to what has already happened.
Thank you both. This was superb..
Beautiful explanation by Rupert. And as Blake used to say, “Man is all imagination”.
On listening is like ...searching for the thing called mind...and it is not...
Got shocked...
Ruperts explanation are always so Direct and like a spark...
Thankyou for the question also...it helped a lot ...
For me, it's very simple: there is no free will, there is no choice. The word "choice" is an overly unnecessary label for a particular action.
Rupert is love
You don't see the law of gravity but you see its effects it has on the universe.
You can consider us a "law of the universe" that governs how the universe changes.
When you look, you don't see you, but you see the effects that you have had on the universe.
This answer satisfies me.
Beautiful insight
The separation that allows consciousness to know itself is time. It knows (part of) what it was a moment ago.
Love it. And conscious seeking to know itself is not a problem in any way.
But its delusional when the mind *identifies* with that time bracketed separation thought.
I totally agree , thank you Rupert❤
Muchísimas gracias!!!🙏🤍💛🧡❤️🩷💜💙🩵💚🤎🩶
Gratitude 🙏
If you look the finite mind as a function of conciousness, then you can see that the mind is not working at the present moment, but instead, it's recognizing what is already past by definition.
In that sense you could say that what is apparently your decision, is just a function of the mind that fullfills the present with the "i" sense.
Infinite present is created out from nothing, and the mind is recognizing unconsciously what already is. A few miliseconds later, that function tells you that you where chosing what indeed already exists.
There are no wrong desitions.
@@GonzaloBarco what is the „you“ ? in tells you ⚡️👀😜
Bad to the bone. Love it
@@helmutwalch9867 😄Good point
Everything is made out of Consciousness, there is no thing apart from it.
thank you ☕😎🤓🤠
The decision comes from the finite mind being free as consciousness, the one, has given It to all of us, so She can have a reflection of herself.
the modulation of the awareness looked through a small window by itself, where it is both the camera and the display is a thought of an individual.
a combined thought would be a single thought where it's a joint of eating icecream + drinking coffee
filtered by 2 mobile screen, 1 person is eating icecream thought, other person is drinking coffee thought.
Extrapolate that.... all possible thoughts happening at once, only split by the screen into multiple sane thought to an individual.
To quote Sri Ramana Maharishi, ' A Parameswara Sakthi ' sets the events rolling on. He meant, I believe, a software kind of net allows events to happen where all constituents participate the coming into fruition of the next event goaded by the focusing light of Consciousness which is by itself non-participatory!
He never mentioned a deciding God in person!
To add an explanatory note, the net is akin to the gravity net proposed by Einstein.
A decision is a thought
🙏🥰 If decisions are thoughts 🤔
Then an AI can think 💭 👀 ?
@ in my experience I see that decisions are made of the same substance as other thoughts
Decisions are just thoughts...and thoughts create an idea of a thinker.
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@charlottecaron3712 Then where do "you" fit in the process, if your thoughts exclude "you"?
Thank you! If the brain needs to additional oxygen it induces me to decide go out from the room. The same refer to human's every activity. Our freedom and decisions is the result of necessity.
"The space in your kitchen is not in your kitchen" of course it is. I have defined my kitchen so everything in my kitchen also the 3d space in my kitchen is part of my kitchen and is therefor my kitchen.
I think what Rupert is saying is that "kitchen" is arbitrary and not a "real" thing. The space (from the perspective of the finite mind) is real, it is only a kitchen because there is a house there and that space has a certain layout and objects being held within that space. The space is more fundamental than the kitchen is, therefore it is your kitchen that is in the space, not space within your kitchen.
Mind Bender
An Spontaneously Unfolding Lotus.
Petals of peace.
Petals of war.
Petals joy.
Petals of sorrow.
Petals of ecstasy.
Petals of pain.
Our mind takes decision about our past experiences and information which we collect from the society and knowledge which he gathered...
Choiceless Choice!
Decisions 🤔… Egotistically, the root impetus underlying all ‘choices’ is mostly a reflexive response to either desire or fear 👀! Which ever ‘choice’ is made leads to dramatically different ‘life’ experiences 😮 When I ask ‘source’, “What would love do NOW?” THIS choice moves life in yet another different direction 🤔 Lucid mindfulness as opposed to a reflexive reaction ‘appears’ as free will…. Finite or Infinite consciousness? 👀?
Does it mean that the consciousness doesn't have any idea of what is going on ?
I wonder if what we perceive as ‘choice’, then, is a consequence of how and to what focus is attuned, or what our awareness is aligned to? Reminds me of Jung’s quote, ‘you don’t have ideas, ideas have you…’
Bravo! “God is an idea…you are an idea” ACIM T315
consciousness goes on after death, as spirit as energy, there is hope that we will see loved ones when we die
How do you know that for sure?
Yes, I formulate it in another way but agreed!👌
This is interesting. I've had lots of OBE'S, and saw everything from outside my body, but I never really looked at my body from outside. Hmmmm.
Who are we? How can we define what we call the self, that which truly exists beneath the false social construct.
To me, there are three main aspects to our existence:
1. Existence itself
2. Consciousness
3. Heart (Soul) the guiding force of the divine within.
The heart represents the centre or the core of our being, which connects us to our origin ( the divine mother ). The heart is the source where divine love eminates, and it is where the breath of life resides within our being, it is also where the self resides. It is also where the presence of the divine resides and its presence is simply divine bliss.
Rupert teaches there's no such thing as existence, which he says means "to stand out from".
@DorinaMary if you always follow others, then of course how you can know yourself?
@@Roshan-q6n Who says I do that?
@@doriesse824 Who would know?
@@Roshan-q6n Was this even a conversation?
I would say....live as if one has freewill and respond as if one doesn't. Thus action is based on what's best in the moment and response is based on whatever the outcome has brought forth.
If a person can choose to live one way or another, wouldn't that mean there is free will?
@DorinaMary what is choice based on? It's based on past experiences, memory, and knowledge, that one has accumulated. Therefore, choice is not 'yours' it's based on past conditionings, preferences, biases, and prejudices and reaching for a certain outcome in life. Be it reward or punishment. But remember that choice is bast on the past, not 'your' past but the past of ones thought patterns. Not only this but also the genetic conditioning that is coded within this body mind. So the question is not whether I have freewill, but rather what determines the choices that is made?
And this matters why? Just do it, go and live life.
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I think it's consciousness who decides through our body mind organism
I like thinking of consciousness that way too, it’s really our ego/finite mind.
I use the term awareness for the infinite mind.
Rupert did this for a while.
is it not the minds conditionings that have an impact on choice, not the only one though...
This can sound like philosophy. It isn’t. You must find this in your direct experience 💜🙏
The entire consciousness paradigm of infinite/finite is a concept that is not provable. That's why there is no answer. So my question is: what does one expect to gain from knowing which or who makes decisions?
Power or freedom reassurance. Power, knowing I have control/input of outcomes or freedom to let go and "let God".
@@awakenotwoke7949 the question is : where is the Place 💭👀 you think about ? (…………) 🤔⚡️
@@wattaura7621 🙏
@@helmutwalch9867 I am not thinking of a place.
Benefit: one is limited and selfish and separate and struggling to survive, and miserable.
The Other is loving, sharing, connecting, creating and happy!
Does no mind, no entity mean also no responsibility? Do we have to make concession, to have responsibility?
Only God exists,there is no personal self to make choices, but we believe there is..Ego, and for good or bad it makes choices, God who is pure Love wouldn't cause suffering but has made the laws of the Universe that may cause it if used wrongly, like a knife made from metal ore that formed in the ground, use it to cut a slice of bread or use it to kill.
P.S.God love tea, PG tips that is, in UK .but let the bag stew for a bit..not too much milk.. and A FLAT half a teaspoon of demerara sugar, the perfect choice....thanks....
in other words (and when can words ever suffice?), there are no choices to be made. 'Walking' a street in a dream, are you actually turning 'left' or 'right'? Assuming choice is possible is an attempt at validating oneself /projection can as a reality exist as an individual 'apart from'. Perhaps the closest that can be said is that one-ly, God IS, and as such, there is not to choose 'between', only Knowing [as in God knowing of ItSelf)... if I don't see God/Christ 'in' the next 'person' I meant, I shant bother look any further.
If you are an illusion, then how can you know realilty? Tell me, how can an illusion distinguish what is real from what is unreal?
Does the mind knows the difference between what is real and what is unreal? Nope, there your answer.
@catalinul1461 It's not an answer to whether or not you are an illusion or not. Know yourself, and you'll know the answer.
Consciousness is the one thing that cannot be an illusion. “The self” is another matter.
@PaulJonesy True Paul, but the true self also needs to be found.
@@Roshan-q6n Isn't "being" being found without being named as you drop the false self?
A "what" not a who makes the choice. Existenc through Consciousness itself.
It just has to move into the next room in the Hilbert Hotel.
Consciousness never forgets Itself, EVER! No one makes decisions, because there is no separate self there. There are no finite objects. There is only Pure Consciousness, (not the words) the alive “stuff,” that is present fact. There is only this one Now, and It has no history, no even of being Now before. What-Is, or Now, is ever present, ever new, but has nothing to do with time or timelessness. One cannot start with what appears as the human picture with the aim of arriving at the Infinite Itself. Rupert, there are no separate minds at all. To the Infinite, there is only Itself, the Infinite.
Love it. Thank you for that post
@ Just the SELF reveling in ITSELF!
He is speaking to a certain level of consciousness. To which there necessarily must be concessions made.
@ Consciousness is ALL, literally! There are no levels, no degrees of ALL.
Smoking hot. Love it
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I don't understand why my comments are censored🤷. I only give a different point of view.
no answer is satisfying for “ me” because there is no “ me”.
It's hilarious how these intellectuals describe the mechanics of this so called awakening, when even a halfwit knows the description is and can never be the described, probably people listening get a lift out of it, think they are getting deep into the awakening journey only to find out the lift or this hit quickly fades and the old self reasserts itself. This podcast as many others are just intellectual gymnastics. Talking "never does it" silence is who we are, and the gateway...so to speak...yes more words...silence..silence..
Nobody makes decisions.
Very complicated answer 😂
Hola ¡ no sembla pas tant complicat: Aixo no sabut en absolut sense nàixer ni canviar ha aparegut és aquí igual a com es aquesta Vida. Jo soc Aixo no sabut visquen aquesta Vida en les seves condicions per un temps , canvi constant, de cicle de Vida: aparèixer créixer madurar i anar-se'n . Se'n va el jo social cultural es queda el Jo no sabut absolut que sóc però ja sense personalitat
These two jokers are talking as if consciousness is an object and its own entity. And they saying without explaining how the object of consciousness derived, except for saying it's infinite and even not explaining how consciousness is an infinite of it's own Being.
Thats like saying consciousness was Born first before the intelligent specie physical body and brain was Born.
They dont even realise that the whole Universe Formed at random, and random means " DONE WITHOUT CONSCIOUS DECISION". Hello!
What these jokers are saying is Consciousness Being appeared before the whole the Universe.
Now we all know that consciousness requires a Form faculty to be a part of and the Universe does not require consciousness because the universe is random which means the Universe does not require to be aware nor survive nor evolve therefore the Universe does not require to even implement consciousness as a recall tool for a previous experience thats been stored to be recalled so as to give it some thought at a later date for a resolution. The Universe does not need to do all that.
Going by all that, what these jokers are really saying is that consciousness Being was there before the Big Bang.
What they think is that when the Big Bang sparked and a big, let's say explosion happened, they think that the elements that fused which caused the spark was the work of consciousness. That is basically what they are saying and that is because they dont have a clue how the formulae of elements react and create a random reaction.
And therefore they just offer more confusion and more questions with no end result, hence the heading " Does Consciousness Make Decisions?" which is just a made up heading for content an resolves nothing. It shouldn't even be a question.
But I have answered the question.
Ruperts explanation has been demonstrated scientifically.
Decades ago experiments showed that, when a testperson is asked to press a button to turn a lamp on and off, when deciding themselves to do so, surprisingly, the nerve/muscle activity started milliseconds before the brain activity in the decission center of the brain, every time.
We actually experience something similar, when we do something unfortunate, only to ask ourselves “Why did I do that?”.
But most of the time, we rationalise that our actions are what we decided, while most of the detailed actions in a day, actually happens without thinking about it.
The illusion is deep.
This is was referenced in a book titled “ The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size” by Tor Nørretranders
Facts.