Chapter 10: “The Future of Science”
In this concluding chapter, we drop in on a talk I gave at a 2023 conference organized by Philip Goff and Andrei Buckareff at Marist College titled “Treating Consciousness as Fundamental,” in which I present alongside other Lights On guests: Lee Smolin, Donald Hoffman, Sean Carroll, and Philip Goff. I describe the evolution of my thinking over the course of working on this documentary series, and I illustrate my most current view of a universe in which consciousness is fundamental. I elaborate further on ways we might expand our methods of scientific experiment, while laying out my prediction about a scientific paradigm shift that is possibly underway.
