ZooM ZoNE - Julian Gough

(Yogi/Marcus)

THE ZoNE sits down with writer and philosopher Julian Gough to discuss his project called “The Egg and the Rock”, the End Poem in Minecraft, and how to navigate that space between arts and science.

With “The Egg and the Rock,” Julian is arguing that our universe is more like an evolving organism than a dead machine. He’s backing up this seemingly outrageous claim with physicist Lee Smolin’s theory of cosmological natural selection, and a whole number of predictions about what the James Webb telescope will see when it turns its eye on the first million years after the Big Bang. Several of these predictions have already come true, to the surprise of everyone except Julian.
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When he is not turning our view of the world upside down, Julian writes children’s books and science fiction novels. In the past, Julian was a rock star. He is known as the comedian who kidnapped a pig. The pignapping video is here.

Julian's reading suggestions and books, papers, and other resources mentioned in the discussion:can be found here.