Consciousness is Self-evident. It is not established by extraneous proofs. It is not possible to deny consciousness because it is the very essence of the one who denies it.+

People demand proof, but they are unaware that their own existence is dependent on the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

The onus is on them to prove that the world in which they exist exists without consciousness.

Scientists now conclude that you are not the brain (body). Consciousness requires the joint operation of the brain, body, and the world. "You are not your brain. The brain, rather, is part of what you are."

Max Planck - The father of quantum physics says:~ Science has no answer to it. Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature.

And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of the mystery that we are trying to solve. 

Remember:~ 

Until the scientists become the seekers of the truth of their existence, the truth will not be revealed. The truth of the whole cannot be got under the microscope. 

When all their invention fails to yield the truth, they have to use their reason to reach the ultimate core of their existence. :~ 

The Biology of Consciousness by Alva Noë. Hill and Wang, 2009

Alva Noe, a University of California, Berkeley, philosopher, and cognitive scientist, argues that after decades of concerted effort on the part of neuroscientists, psychologists, and philosophers, "only one proposition about how the brain makes us conscious ... has emerged unchallenged: we don't have a clue." The reason we have been unable to explain the neural basis of consciousness, he says, is that it does not take place in the brain. Consciousness is not something that happens inside us, but something we achieve; it is more like dancing than it is like the digestive process. To understand consciousness, that we think and feel, and that the world shows up for us, we need to look at a larger system in which the brain is only one element. Consciousness requires the joint operation of the brain, body, and the world. "You are not your brain. The brain, rather, is part of what you are."

Thus, science is going in the right direction in its invention, and one day it will declare that everything is consciousness, which Sage Sankara declared 1200 years back ~ everything is Atman, because Atman is in the form of the consciousness

The universe in which you exist is nothing but an illusion created out of the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. Consciousness is ever-present. Without consciousness, the world in which you exist ceases to exist.

Consciousness is Self-evident. It is not established by extraneous proofs. It is not possible to deny consciousness because it is the very essence of the one who denies it.

Consciousness is the basis of all kinds of knowledge, presuppositions, and proofs. Consciousness is everything. Thus, consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.

Man cannot live without the physical world; it is the basis of his life, so it must be the starting point of his inquiry. Things, not imaginations, must be the seeker's material.

The one who knows the ultimate truth or Brahman knows the world in truth because they see the world in the nondualistic perspective.

One who loses touch with the external world and gives himself over to his thoughts alone takes his illusions to be the reality and remains in the realm of a perverted intellectualism. Perverted intellectuality is nothing but an egoic exhibition.

The look of an object will depend upon the medium through which the observer views it. In fact, our mental and intellectual conditions determine the world, observed and experienced. The commoner viewing the world will see it differently from a Gnani viewing the same world. Each one interprets the world that they see in terms of their existing knowledge. The commoner sees everything based on the ego; therefore, he experiences the birth, life, death, and the world as a reality, whereas a Gnani sees everything as consciousness, and he is fully aware of the fact that there is no second thing that exists other than the Soul or consciousness.

Thus, all the egocentric (religious) adulteration has to be bifurcated to realize the ultimate truth, which is beyond form, time, and space. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar