A baffling new theory to explain human consciousness has suggested it comes from hidden dimensions and is not just brain activity.

A physicist claimed that we plug in to these invisible planes of the universe when making art, practicing science, pondering philosophy or dreaming, and this could explain the phenomenon that has evaded scientific understanding for centuries. 

Michael Pravica, a professor of physics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, has based the wild idea on hyperdimensionality, the idea that the universe is made up of more dimensions than just the four we perceive: height, length width and time. But his theory is highly controversial, with one scientist saying that the cornerstone of Pravica’s theory ‘borders on science fiction.’  ‘The sheer fact that we can conceive of higher dimensions than four within our mind, within our mathematics, is a gift… it’s something that transcends biology,’ Pravica told Popular Mechanics. Scientists have been attempting to explain human consciousness and its origins for hundreds of years – and the theories run the gamut. 

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