The well-served and previously glorious materialistic and reductionistic scientific worldview is yielding to a novel scientific conception of subjective consciousness and objective reality-and their unexpected intimate kinship. In essence, the human mind is witnessing the most radical paradigm shift in its own history. Beginning with an information ontology, a radical participatory ontology is hinted at. As the cracks in the current edifice of science continually grow, the new information-theoretic paradigm is embraced. Moreover, peer-reviewed studies are appearing in the physics literature describing mind-matter interactions in double-slit quantum experiments-a long suspected connection by many pioneers of quantum mechanics. Then, the surprising therapeutic effects of psychedelics is discovered, next to a myriad of transcendental planes of being, accessible to pure consciousness.

Moving towards a more empirical analysis, the enigma of intelligence is discussed, arising in decentralized systems and even in inanimate structures. The notion of spirituality is creeping back into science. The nature of consciousness, as has been suggested by ancient Eastern and shamanic traditions, is necessarily universal and primal. In attempts to bridge the chasm between the objective and subjective, scientists and philosophers have opened up to the unspeakable. This gives rise to the very first formal description of consciousness. By extending the information-theoretic paradigm, the informational nature of consciousness is uncovered. Finally, the human mind faces its own nature.

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