I just bought this book. Here is an Amazon summary of the book:
"A Rollicking Assault on Science's Inability to Answer Life's Most Important Questions
Alex Tsakiris has interviewed many bestselling authors and dozens of world-class academics on his popular science podcast Skeptiko.com. In this book he shares with us what he's learned through his 200 plus interviews with some of the world’s leading consciousness researchers and thinkers. In doing so, he reveals what the best research is saying about 'big picture' science questions and the limits of science in general. What's he's learned, in short, is that science-as-we-know-it is an emperor-with-no-clothes-on proposition. It mesmerizes us with flashy trinkets, while failing at its core mission of leading us toward self-discovery. Science is wrong about almost everything because science depends on our consciousness being an illusion—and it’s not!"
MY COMMENT:
Even as I suspected, until we understand how consciousness creates the reality we personally experience we should NOT blindly feel we know what reality actually is. I currently feel that the portion of reality we are experiencing with about 10% of our brain's potential is pretty much of a joke compared to the unfathomable mystery that surrounds us. We are barely scraping the proverbial surface of the 'iceberg' of reality and yet science acts as though they have it all figured out. There is no consciousness deliberately creating the reality we are living. There is no meaning or purpose to anything. We are just a bunch of random mistakes. Life is a mistake. Love is just another mistake. Leonardo Da Vinci came into being as the result of random accident mistakes that just so happened to form Leonardo Da Vinci. Simple enough, right?
Idiot scientists who blindly act as though every theory they have is a fact and brainwash children to believe their theories are facts. It should be considered a crime to lie to children in the scholastic system. Brainwashing children with lies about the nature of reality is indeed a Universal Crime. One day those in charge of the educational system will realize this, obviously, when it is far too late for them to repent of their crimes against the mind of humanity.
