{"id":236076,"date":"2026-04-28T14:14:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T19:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/is-consciousness-more-fundamental-to-reality-than-quantum-physics"},"modified":"2026-04-28T14:14:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T19:14:32","slug":"is-consciousness-more-fundamental-to-reality-than-quantum-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/is-consciousness-more-fundamental-to-reality-than-quantum-physics","title":{"rendered":"Is consciousness more fundamental to reality than quantum physics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/is-consciousness-more-fundamental-to-reality-than-quantum-physics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The idea that everything that exists can be built from the bottom up has long held sway among physicists. Now, a new kind of science is under construction that centres conscious experience \u2013 and might unravel the universe\u2019s biggest mysteries.<\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/author\/karmela-padavic-callaghan\/\">Karmela Padavic-Callaghan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea that everything that exists can be built from the bottom up has long held sway among physicists. Now, a new kind of science is under construction that centres conscious experience \u2013 and might unravel the universe\u2019s biggest mysteries. By Karmela Padavic-Callaghan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236076","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}