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He dismisses panpsychist ideas (that particles possess proto-conscious qualities) as radical and currently unjustified but remains open to scientific discovery. Greene is confident that, eventually, neuroscience and physics will clarify that consciousness is an emergent phenomenon resulting from physical processes—not some mystical or external entity.
The Big Bang and What Precedes It
Addressing one of the most profound questions—what happened before the Big Bang—Greene suggests two plausible scenarios:
The Big Bang was one event among many in a larger multiverse landscape, with countless other Big Bangs and cycles.
The very notion of "before" is meaningless because time itself started with the Big Bang.