WHY SOME SCIENTISTS BELIEVE THE UNIVERSE IS CONSCIOUS

They’re not mystics. But materialism is not giving good answers so they are looking around


Maybe the Buddhists were right after all, the world is an Illusion and there is an universal consciousness.


Some prominent physicists and neuroscientists who cannot accept the idea of a separate immaterial reality (dualism) turn to the simplest alternative, that the whole universe participates in consciousness (panpsychism). Perry notes that this general approach is a staple of Hindu and Buddhist thought but a number of scientists whom one might expect to be materialists also favor it in various ways. Physicist Gregory Matloff even thinks that panpsychism might explain dark matter, the 95% of matter in our universe that must exist, on account of gravitational forces, but is otherwise unknown to us:

WHY SOME SCIENTISTS BELIEVE THE UNIVERSE IS CONSCIOUS