{"id":232456,"date":"2026-03-03T10:07:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T16:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/consciousness-creates-the-universe-says-roger-penrose"},"modified":"2026-03-03T10:07:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T16:07:20","slug":"consciousness-creates-the-universe-says-roger-penrose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/consciousness-creates-the-universe-says-roger-penrose","title":{"rendered":"Consciousness Creates the Universe Says Roger Penrose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FBTH1mguescM%3Ffeature%3Doembed&display_name=YouTube&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DBTH1mguescM&image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FBTH1mguescM%2Fhqdefault.jpg&type=text%2Fhtml&schema=youtube\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"480\" width=\"854\" title=\"We Have It Backwards: Consciousness Came First, Then The Universe | Roger Penrose\" class=\"\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Read \u201c\u201d by James P. Kowall on Medium.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Watch this very interesting video in which Roger Penrose argues that Consciousness is fundamental and came first before it created the universe through a process of observation that turns potentiality into actuality:<\/p>\n<p>For 400 years, we\u2019ve believed that mindless matter eventually evolved into conscious minds. But what if we have the causation completely backwards? What if consciousness is the precondition for the universe?<\/p>\n<p>In this video, we dive deep into the quantum paradox, wave function collapse, and the radical scientific theory that consciousness isn\u2019t an accident of evolution \u2014 it\u2019s the fundamental building block of reality itself. From the Copenhagen interpretation to the mysteries of the biological brain, we explore how quantum mechanics suggests the physical world is simply what appears when consciousness observes itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read \u201c\u201d by James P. Kowall on Medium. Watch this very interesting video in which Roger Penrose argues that Consciousness is fundamental and came first before it created the universe through a process of observation that turns potentiality into actuality: For 400 years, we\u2019ve believed that mindless matter eventually evolved into conscious minds. But what [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,385,47,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-evolution","category-neuroscience","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232456","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}