Is Consciousness Really Produced by the Brain?

Written by Khenpo Tsultrim Lodrö, translated and taught by Khenpo Sodargye.

Is consciousness really nothing more than a product of the brain? If the brain stops functioning, does everything we call “self” simply disappear?

This series challenges one of the deepest assumptions of the modern materialist worldview. Drawing on neuroscience, biology, physics, and Buddhist reasoning, it examines whether consciousness can truly be reduced to brain activity—and whether the world we experience as solid, objective, and unquestionably real is quite what it seems.