{"id":145088,"date":"2022-08-29T02:24:16","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T07:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/the-romance-of-reality-how-the-universe-organizes-itself-to-create-life-consciousness-and-cosmic-complexity"},"modified":"2022-08-29T02:24:16","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T07:24:16","slug":"the-romance-of-reality-how-the-universe-organizes-itself-to-create-life-consciousness-and-cosmic-complexity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/the-romance-of-reality-how-the-universe-organizes-itself-to-create-life-consciousness-and-cosmic-complexity","title":{"rendered":"The Romance of Reality: How the Universe Organizes Itself to Create Life, Consciousness, and Cosmic Complexity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-romance-of-reality-how-the-universe-organizes-itself-to-create-life-consciousness-and-cosmic-complexity.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bobby Azarian is a cognitive neuroscientist and science journalist. His work can be found in publications including <em>The Atlantic<\/em>, the <em>New York Times<\/em>, <em>Scientific American<\/em>, and <em>BBC Future<\/em>. He has also authored academic papers for prestigious peer-reviewed journals, such as <em>Human Brain Mapping<\/em> and <em>Cognition &amp; Emotion<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Below, Bobby shares 5 key insights from his new book, <a href=\"https:\/\/nextbigidea.app.link\/N0U8gO6ZKsb\">Listen to the audio version\u2014read by Bobby himself\u2014in the Next Big Idea App.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re listening to this then congratulations, you\u2019re lucky enough to be alive during the most exciting time in history. We are on the verge of a paradigm shift of unparalleled magnitude. Such a shift occurs when new science forces us to adopt a different overall framework and perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bobby Azarian is a cognitive neuroscientist and science journalist. His work can be found in publications including The Atlantic, the New York Times, Scientific American, and BBC Future. He has also authored academic papers for prestigious peer-reviewed journals, such as Human Brain Mapping and Cognition &amp; Emotion. Below, Bobby shares 5 key insights from his [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}