In the 1930s astrophysicist James Jeans wrote: The universe looks more like a great thought than a great machine. Mind no longer appears as an accident intruder into the realm of matter. . . . Mind may be the creator and governor of the realm of matter—not of course our individual minds, but the mind in which the atoms out of which our individual minds have grown and exist as thoughts. The quantum phenomena make it possible to propose that the background of the universe is mindlike.15
