Consciousness - the Existential Question - Robert Lawrence Kuhn - Buddha at the Gas Pump Interview®

Added: 2026-05-17

[00:00:00]Well, there's a there's an overarching view that I should stay first. And that is the whole concept of consciousness to me is the most significant existential question that humanity can ask. Because if we're looking at the nature of reality, which you know, we lot of many of your interviewees love to talk about that drive our lives has driven you, has driven me. So, the nature of reality to me, consciousness is the closest we can get to a way to understand that. Now, that goes either direction. If consciousness is indeed all physical, that is a lot of points for that the world is all physical and there there is no non-physical reality as many scientists of course would would espouse. If consciousness isn't something beyond the physical that we know today or beyond even any physical whatsoever, then that is a big statement about the nature of reality. So, consciousness is the existential question of humanity. And how it goes, physical, non-physical, the nature of the physical, nature of the non-physical, the world or the all reality turns on that question.