Top Scientist REVEALS: We Invented Heaven, God Is A Human Invention! | Prof Brian Greene

“these kinds of things. But in the book Until the End of Time, I tried to give the reader a sense of how we got here. But I also then turned to the future and tried to give them a sense of what we'll be if we go arbitrarily far into the future.”

“Oh, great. Well, I'm glad to hear that. And thank you very much. Really appreciate that. I have a couple of your books here. I think this is the most recent one from 2020 called Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe. And I think, you know, your work makes us feel so many things, but I think maybe the most important feeling it”

“Different groups of people. Which one would you direct them to read? Well, my favorite, if you sort of frame it in that flat-footed way, is Until the End of Time because it's the more philosophical and the more the kind of ideas that we spoke about here today.”

“and time, some of the other books are more directed in that way. Until the end of time. Mind, matter, and our search for meaning in an evolving universe. We have a closing tradition where the last guest leaves a question to the next. The question left for you is, what might be worth even more than the thing that matters most to you?”

“And I will say, though, you know, I read a book when I was about in my 20s called The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker. He was a social psychologist, I guess, sociologist who believed strongly that so much of what we do in our lives is driven by our awareness of our own mortality.”

“Moreover, I can understand why humans would introduce this idea. Again, it's Ernest Becker and the denial of death. How wonderful to say, yeah, our bodies die, sure, but our consciousness, it doesn't die. Our consciousness, it floats off and it rejoins the universal.”

“And I was like, and I said, I took it. I said, I'm never going to eat meat again. Later on, I did eat cheese and milk. I wasn't vegan at that point. But when I was a professor at Cornell in the 1990s, I went to an animal sanctuary in Watkins Glen, New York.”