The Mystery

From the point of view of the hypothesis of morphic resonance, there is no need to suppose that all the laws of nature sprang into being fully formed at the moment of the Big Bang, like a kind of cosmic Napoleonic code, or that they exist in a metaphysical realm beyond time and space. Before the general acceptance of the Big Bang theory in the 1960s, eternal laws seemed to make sense. The universe itself was thought to be eternal and evolution was confined to the biological realm. But we now live in a radically evolutionary universe. If we want to stick to the idea of natural laws, we could say that as nature itself evolves, the laws of nature also evolve, just as human laws evolve over time. But then how would natural laws be remembered or enforced? The law metaphor is embarrassingly anthropomorphic. Habits are less human-centred. Many kinds of organisms have habits, but only humans have laws. The habits of nature depend on non-local similarity reinforcement. Through morphic resonance...

  Since the 1920s many developmental biologists have proposed that biological organization depends on fields, variously called biological fields, or developmental fields, or positional fields, or morphogenetic fields. All cells come from other cells, and all cells inherit fields of organization. Genes are part of this organization. They play an essential role. But they do not explain the organization itself. Why not? Thanks to molecular biology, we know what genes do. They enable organisms to make particular proteins. Other genes are involved in the control of protein synthesis. Identifiable genes are switched on and particular proteins made at the beginning of new developmental processes. Some of these developmental switch genes, like the Hox genes in fruit flies, worms, fish and mammals, are very similar. In evolutionary terms, they are highly conserved. But switching on genes such as these cannot in itself determine form, otherwise fruit flies would not look different from us. M...

When discussing conscious Dark Energy, we often picture it as a single monolithic consciousness. But what if that's not the case? What if Dark Energy is not one mind, but an entire ecosystem of intelligences? Imagine that fluctuations in the Dark Energy field could form stable, self-sustaining structures. These structures could exchange information and energy competing, cooperating, and evolving. This might represent a form of life, one based not on biology, but on fundamental field dynamics. In this scenario, our universe is not just a container. It's a living ocean teaming with unseen leviathans made of Dark Energy. These entities could vary drastically in size and complexity, ranging from simple structures akin to cosmic bacteria to complex self-aware entities comparable to the gods of ancient myths. Their time scales would be completely alien to us. A single breath for one of these beings might last billions of years. The entire history of our material universe might be mer...

The Holographic Principle - originating from studies of black hole thermodynamics. This principle suggests that all the information held within a given volume of space can be entirely described by data residing on that volume's boundary. Think of it simply, it's like a hologram where a three-dimensional image is encoded onto a two-dimensional surface. Applied cosmologically, the Holographic Principle suggests that our 3D universe might literally be a hologram, a projection of information recorded on some 2D surface at the very edge of our cosmos. This concept sounds utterly insane, yet it's grounded in serious mathematics and helps resolve some profound paradoxes in theoretical physics. But if it's true, how do we define Dark Energy within a holographic universe? To you, Dark Energy might not be an inherent property of the 3D volume we inhabit, but rather a characteristic of that 2D surface where all the information about our reality is stored. The accelerated expansion...

There are a few standard explanations for this fine-tuning. One is the Multiverse Theory. Perhaps there exists an infinite ensemble of universes, each with randomly determined fundamental constants. We by definition can only exist in one of the few universes where the conditions happen to be suitable for our existence. But there is also an alternative, more teleological explanation. What if these constants aren't random at all? What if they were deliberately selected? If Dark Energy is indeed a form of intelligence, then it could have self-adjusted its properties specifically to guarantee the emergence of life and consciousness.  In this scenario, we are not merely an accidental byproduct of impersonal physical laws, but potentially one of the underlying goals of the universe's existence. This intelligence could have set its density at the minimum positive value required, just enough to prevent cosmic collapse, yet small enough not to interfere with the necessary formation of g...

What exactly is consciousness and what constitutes a mind? We are accustomed to associating these concepts with biological structures with a brain made of neurons. But does it have to be that way? Can a mind exist in other forms? The philosophical concept of Panpsychism suggests that consciousness or some protoelement of it is a fundamental property of the universe inherent in matter at the most basic level. Just as an electron has mass and charge, it might also possess an elemental form of awareness. In this view, complex forms of consciousness like ours don't arise from dead matter, but rather through the combination and complexity of these elemental quanta of consciousness. This helps us circumvent the so-called hard problem of consciousness, the question of how subjective experience can emerge from purely physical processes within the brain. If Panpsychism holds true, the entire universe is in a sense alive. Stars, planets, nebulae, they all might possess primitive forms of awa...