Physicist Federico Faggin talks about his new theory which puts our inner experience and the desire to know ourselves at the centre of reality
‘We have to imagine that everything is made of an undivided energy that has the desire and the capacity to experience and know itself.’
David Hornsby | talks with Professor Martin Rees, the Astronomer Royal, about two exciting initiatives in space exploration
Richard Gault | reviews the autobiography of Federico Faggin, the man who invented the silicon chip, who is now putting forward a new theory of consciousness
Scientist and philosopher Bernardo Kastrup discusses his critique of materialism and argues that reality is essentially mental
”If we absorb the notion that matter is only an appearance, then suddenly the entire physical world becomes like a book to be read because it’s an indication – a sign – of something behind it.“
Merlin Sheldrake talks about the remarkable world of fungi and what they can tell us about ourselves
“We could allow fungi to be what they are, and let them populate our imaginations with useful analogies of how to make sense of ourselves”
Martin Rees, the Astronomer Royal, on the threats to our survival in the 21st century, and the need to take a cosmic perspective
“The more we learn, the more astonishing it is that the world has emerged with all this beauty and wonder. And so naturally, we want to preserve it.”