Consciousness Isn’t Self-Centered

[[newsletter20_header.png] March 8, 2020]( Dear Nautilus Reader, Could consciousness be all around us, like spacetime? That and more, in some of the most popular stories on Nautilus this week. Best, The Nautilus Team info@nautil.us [16077_55aef34e0d62637c23ad60186310cd4d.png]( [16891_eb1daa7f2b5068f7127382b1eae924b7.png]( [Consciousness Isn’t Self-Centered By Annaka Harris The great mystery of consciousness is why matter lights up with felt experience.]( [16947_4270dbf131a6b90e675b8861dd699ab5.png]( From Quanta Abstractions Channel[How the Cosmic Dark Ages Snuffed Out All Light By Dana Najjar Darkness isn’t always the absence of light. It can also be the inability of light to get very far.](  [16102_6ca4e9af5ea662a095c3243dc591bf54.png]( [Your Support Matters NAUTILUS PRINT EDITION Support science journalism by signing up for the Nautilus print subscription! You’ll get an issue every other month, and free membership in Nautilus Prime. For every print subscription sold, we’ll plant a tree with American Forests.](  [16946_1f2013e3dcfa352ca993cc25cc334c10.png]( [Electrons Don’t Think By Sabine Hossenfelder I recently discovered panpsychism. That’s the idea that all matter—animate or inanimate—is conscious, we just happen to be somewhat more conscious than carrots.]( [11238_abb451a12cf1a9d93292e81f0d4fdd7a.jpg]( From Women in Science & Engineering Channel[Spark of Science: Melissa Franklin By Day’s Edge Productions “Experimentalists are the cowboys of physics,” says Melissa Franklin, an experimental particle physicist at Harvard University.]( [2614_5df07ecf4cea616e3eb384a9be3511bb.png]( [From Earth Channel Once Upon a Gemstone By Adrienne Berard For longer than recorded history, gemstones have been used to tell stories.](  [nwms_fb.png]( [nwms_twt.png]( [nwms_ing.png]( NautilusNext 25 Broadway 9th FloorNew York, NY 10018 [Add us to your address book]( Copyright © 2020 NautilusNext, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in at our website. [unsubscribe from this list](   [update subscription preferences](