Conscious realism and the cosmological polytope: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reYdQYZ9Rj4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reYdQYZ9Rj4 https://arxiv.org/abs

Conscious realism and the cosmological polytope: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reYdQYZ9Rj4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reYdQYZ9Rj4 https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.02813 https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.02813 According to Prof. Hoffman, this model of the universe is highly parsimonious in that it can model data from the Large Hadron Collider using a single parameter, while the best incumbent theory (quantum field theory) needs millions. The implication is that everything we see and experience, including space and time itself, are not fundamental. The unit of reality is consciousness. This has far reaching applications into every other scientific and non-scientific human endeavor, from neuroscience to philosophy. It's no exaggeration to say that if he's right (and he claims the math shows that he is) it may be the most important discovery in the history of humanity. Even Albert Einstein appears to have intuited this when he wrote: "Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live."