The mind-stuff of the world is, of course, something more general than our individual conscious minds.... It is difficult for the matter-of-fact physicist to accept the view that the substratum of everything is of mental character. But no one can deny that mind is the first and most direct thing in our experience, and all else is remote inference. Arthur Stanley Eddington
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What we know of the material world is a result of our being able to explore and learn about that material world. Because we have the ability to explore, we have an opportunity to learn about this world in a way that is not possible for any other kind of being. However, if we were just a collection of neurons in a shell, the material world would be entirely inaccessible to us.

Source: The Nature Of The Physical World

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