"Consciousness creates the universe" is a common line for mystics and other con-men who don't understand QM, but like to use its concepts because it makes them sound smart.
Well, I'd call that sheer quackery myself. Religions like Christianity simplify the Creation to something like that.... "God spake, and the world came into being" and such. Mormons don't believe that.... well, at least at one point they considered the elements eternal, existing or co-existing in some form perhaps even before "God" became a "God".
Joseph Smith wrote Mormon scripture, saying "The elements are eternal, and cannot be created or made" and called "spirit" a kind of material of such a character that we could not detect it with our material senses or tools. He also theorized that "intelligence" or the core character of the human soul, is eternal. All the further "creation" is working with the materials at hand.
My friend, a rather humble intellectual who covers all the bases with appropriate terms of limitations, speculations, and understandable caveats of all kinds, puts forward a sort of math that theoretically provides operators like the Hamiltonian familiar with material quantum theory.
You do realize, mathematically, that there are more allowed forms of "existence" than we can see or call "material", I hope.
So under a broader definition of "material" defined as mathematical realities, his is an attempt to generalize everything under the same system....
I'd say "intelligence" acts on stuff willfully to organize things in some considered beneficial way. "consciousness" of stuff is inherent in specific respects in all things, considered somehow to have some non-zero residual "intelligent" value.
Joseph Smith was a bit of an animist, maybe a bit of a Buddhist. The Great Reality that is Existence had the capacity for joy and sorrow in itself. Worlds could weep, and Rocks could shout praise for the Messiah. Or should I just say Christianity has some conceptual relations to Eastern religions that pre-existed Moses by thousands of years..... as well as to Quantum Theory.....
The Russian geochemist Vernadski worked the same idea into Marxism, to please his overlords, into the general theory of Progress under Marxist determinism.... showing how on a global scale "Life" has been a force acting beneficently throughout geologic time....
But the thing about Jesus that I like better is the value placed on humanity generally, though horrible miscreants calling themselves "Christians", or "Moslems", have always been supple enough to abuse the claims of religion in disposing of their particular foes.... as have socialists, generally....especially materialist ideologues.....
I suppose the earliest humans did one another in for a scrap of meat, or a cave, or a fruit tree, or just because.....
I have recently been amazed to discover my Viking roots......
So, anyway, V.I. Vernadsky's observations make rocks look more humane....
