Saturday
The matter of consciousness (pun intended) has occupied humanity for millennia.
It is now posited by some that consciousness is a form of matter, or, more precisely, a unique arrangement of atoms (perceptronium) producing a unique form of communication. This theory is the bastard offspring of the notion that the mind is synonymous with the brain.
Living as we do in an upside down, back-to-front world, it makes sense to more closely explore the reverse of this proposition, which is that all matter, including the brain, is simply a phenomenon of consciousness.
At the base of matter is the assembly, in various configurations, of protons, electrons and neutrons known as atoms. Atoms are encapsulated energy (plasma is the pre-atomic state of protons and electrons and constitutes, supposedly, over 99{781366457d9c05ca9285c5eb3e04ac75968647e24436986cab65f74e6f4b3aad} of the visible universe).
What is it that manifests energy, which in turn gives form to the universe around us?
It is implausible in the extreme to postulate that matter created consciousness, though it is likely that matter contains residuals of the consciousness that formed it.