Are these recent quotations by scientist Professor Donald Hoffman an indication of a shift in scientific acceptance of the mystic experience of Reality?
They almost make you wonder if he is repeating what he’s read here! (which, I hasten to add, I’m sure he hasn’t) :
Consciousness is “subjective”, “individual”;
Consciousness “is not made up by the brain”;
There are … “no experiments that prove consciousness is made up by the brain”;
“Everything is consciousness”;
“Consciousness is ultimately fundamental to the universe”.
Donald David Hoffman is an American cognitive psychologist and popular science author. He is a professor in the Department of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine, with joint appointments in the Department of Philosophy, the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, and the School of Computer Science. (Wikipedia).
He was being interviewed on Closer To Truth on UTube by Robert Lawrence Kuhn who is a public intellectual, international corporate strategist and investment banker. He has a doctorate in neuroscience and is the author and editor of over 25 books. (Wikipedia).
Mystical Experiences of Reality 