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Essentia Foundation's Hans Busstra interviews theoretical physicist and complexity scientist James Glattfelder on his new book: “The Sapient Cosmos: What a modern-day synthesis of science and philosophy teaches us about the emergence of information, consciousness, and meaning”, published by Essentia Foundation.
Essentia Foundation's Hans Busstra interviews theoretical physicist and complexity scientist James Glattfelder on his new book: “The Sapient Cosmos: What a modern-day synthesis of science and philosophy teaches us about the emergence of information, consciousness, and meaning”, published by Essentia Foundation.
![What is Reality? [Visuals by Trey Ratcliff]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/u8-IsO9MBws/mqdefault.jpg "What is Reality? [Visuals by Trey Ratcliff]
Essay by James B. Glattfelder in George and the Blue Moon by Lucy and Stephen Hawking 2016 Audible (Chapter 28): https://www.audible.com/pd/George-and-the-Blue-Moon-Audiobook/B01MR4A0FT
Hardcover/paperback: https://www.amazon.com/George-Blue-Moon-Georges-Secret/dp/1481466305
Visuals by Trey Ratcliff Machine Elf - We Are Made From Stars
Audio by Joshua Ryan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7qr msj9o
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More information on the ideas presented in the essay:
Information—Consciousness—Reality: How a New Understanding of the Universe Can Help Answer Age-Old Questions of Existence by James B. Glattfelder 2019
Open-access publication: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-03633-1")
