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The question that has intrigued several of the planet's great physicists including Stanford's Andre Linde and American quantum physicist John Archibald Wheeler in the last decades of his life, was: “Are life and mind irrelevant to the structure of the universe, or are they central to it?” Are we living in a “participatory,” conscious universe, a cosmos in which all of us are embedded as co-creators, replacing the a purely materialistic universe as “out there” separate separate from us. “I have a much easier time imagining how we understand the Big Bang than I have imagining how we can understand consciousness,” says Edward Witten, theoretical physicist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey who has been compared to Isaac Newton and Einstein.
Sources: Andrei Linde, "Universe, Life, Consciousness", Scientific American and You Are the Universe. Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale. Kindle Edition.
Video Credits:
European Southern Observatory, ESOcast video, Supernova to the End of the Universe, via Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License and Glass Brain Flythrough - Gazzaleylab / SCCN / Neuroscapelab
Image Credits: With thanks to Pixabay and Creative Commons
