Articles for tag: Consciousness, cosmology, panpsychism, philosophy of mind

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12 Clues Suggesting Consciousness Could Be a Fundamental Part of the Universe

Suhail Ahmed

  For more than a century, physics has treated consciousness as an awkward afterthought, something that just “happens” in brains while the real action unfolds in particles and fields. Yet as neuroscientists, physicists, and philosophers collide over the hardest problems in science, a stranger possibility is slipping from the fringe into serious debate: what if ...

Could the Universe Be Conscious? Scientists Are Starting to Ask

Could the Universe Be Conscious? Scientists Are Starting to Ask

Gargi Chakravorty

When you look up at the stars tonight, you might be gazing into the cosmos with more than just your eyes. You could be one tiny piece of a vast, thinking universe staring back at itself through you. This isn’t some new-age fantasy or science fiction plot. It’s a hypothesis that serious scientists and philosophers ...