Thinking Universe

Have you ever looked up at the star-filled night sky and felt a profound sense of connection, a silent and awe-inspiring feeling that you are part of something vast, intelligent, and alive?

For centuries, we have been told this feeling is a delusion. The standard story of science has given us a universe that is a cold, empty, and mindless machine, a cosmic accident in which human consciousness is a lonely and insignificant fluke. We are, in this narrative, the orphans of an indifferent cosmo...