Psychology Today | 02.01.2026 08:24
As discussed in my previous post, The Romance of Reality presents a set of scientifically-premised arguments for viewing life, consciousness, and the physical universe as being all of one piece, a view mistakable at times for a Vedanta, Tao, or Zen-like stance on the oneness of being. By the end of the book, however, it seems far less focused on ‘being here now.’ Instead, the author declares as self-evident that if humans and the devices with which he expects us soon to merge fail to escape the limits of terrestrial existence before the sun becomes a red giant and vaporizes Earth some 7 or 8 billion years from now, our existence will have been for naught.
