“The universe itself could result from less than one milligram of matter compressed to a size billions of times smaller than an electron,” writes Linde. “One may consider our part of the universe as an extremely long-lived quantum fluctuation… Is it not possible that consciousness, like space-time, has its own intrinsic freedom and that neglecting these will lead to a description of the universe that is fundamentally incomplete?” One theory holds that consciousness is part of the physical world, like gravity, and participated in the original creation of the universe.
