The first problem with the nature of consciousness is describing what you mean by it. Try, and I guarantee you that someone will find a sponge, Apple product, or bathroom slipper that meets that definition.

Electro-magnetic radiation, on the other hands, is highly describable in precise, testable, repeatable terms.

When you can state Maxwell's Laws of Consciousness, we'll talk. And rename them "Grishka's".

> consciousness. Time might as well be an artifact of that.

Psychedelics can remove the sensation of time passing. But they are also modifying the experience of "consciousness" itself.

I got downvoted on here not so long ago for mentioning time as an emergent property of quantum consciousness so maybe it's controversial.

Dark matter absolutely is a crutch.

It's "dark" in the sense that the (fabled) Dark Ages were dark. They didn't have more cloud cover then. And dark matter is 'dark' as in 'inobservable, except by gravitational attraction'. So we admit it might not even be "matter" by any definition we have; it's just what we're calling this invisible, untouchable, silent elephant in the room. That is very heavy. And might not be an elephant.

Honestly, "invisible matter" might have been a better term, but that too would have been misinterpreted.

Honestly, just saying the maths doesn’t always work is much more approachable than dark/invisible matter.