{"id":229186,"date":"2026-01-16T22:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T04:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/what-if-the-universe-remembers-everything"},"modified":"2026-01-16T22:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T04:03:11","slug":"what-if-the-universe-remembers-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/what-if-the-universe-remembers-everything","title":{"rendered":"What If the Universe Remembers Everything?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9js06nu2I3s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes crystals behave in surprising ways. A new chemical may resist crystallizing for years, and then, once it happens in one place, it suddenly begins to crystallize easily all over the world.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes animals, too, show a strange collective learning. Once one group has learned a new behavior, the same species elsewhere seems able to learn it more quickly, even without any direct contact.<\/p>\n<p>In this keynote address, from the Science of Consciousness Conference, Rupert brings these and other examples together to suggest a simple but radical possibility.<\/p>\n<p>All Conference Videos.<br \/> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thescienceofconsciousness\">@thescienceofconsciousness<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To support Rupert\u2019s work click the join button to become a channel member.<br \/> \u2026 or subscribe on Substack. <a href=\"https:\/\/rupertsheldrake.substack.com\">https:\/\/rupertsheldrake.substack.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes crystals behave in surprising ways. A new chemical may resist crystallizing for years, and then, once it happens in one place, it suddenly begins to crystallize easily all over the world. Sometimes animals, too, show a strange collective learning. Once one group has learned a new behavior, the same species elsewhere seems able to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229186","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=229186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}