Do all living creatures experience some analogue of our own sense of rapture at the deep purples in a twilight sky?
There is no universe without perception. Consciousness and the cosmos are correlative.
The relationship between the physical world and consciousness [...] has actually vexed and fascinated science for centuries.
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die.
Consciousness is a profound issue. Without any exaggeration, it may well be characterized—as Paul Hoffman told one of the authors—as the deepest and most important in all of science.
What if the whole insensible model can suddenly make sense by putting everything together? What if the universe—nature—and the perceiver are not stand-alone entities?
The universe we perceive is inside our mind.
If all is an eternal existence of life and nature—the true ‘self’—what can die?