Julian Gough sums up his career as follows: “I just sit in my room and write.”

Well, I think being an acclaimed children’s author, novelist, stage playwright, poet and top-ten Irish musician is a little more impressive than he’s letting on…

Oh, and I didn’t even mention that he wrote the ending to the computer game Minecraft!

His current project, The Egg and The Rock, puts all of this to shame. This book, which Julian is writing in public on Substack, seeks to do no less than redescribe the universe, arguing that is not some random, dead, purposeless sack of chemicals, but instead a living, evolving organism.

Julian joins me to discuss why the arc of human evolution bends towards man-made black holes, the hidden catastrophe at the heart of materialist science, the strange life of subterranean ice aliens, and MUCH more!

This was such an interesting conversation - I can’t wait for you to hear it. For the full transcript, episode takeaways, and bucketloads of other goodies designed to make you go, “Hmm, that’s interesting!”, check out our Substack.

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Show Notes:

“I just sit in my room and write”
Why write a book in public?
Materialism & science’s hidden catastrophe
“The scientific method is in conflict with human nature”
The faulty assumption at the heart of cosmology
Big bangs, supermassive black holes & Darwinian evolution: A ~30 minute masterclass in cosmological natural selection
“I'm predicting very, very large amounts of life in this universe”
The strange life of subterranean ice aliens
Could we spot man-made black holes?
Bringing consciousness into physics
Pulling back the curtain
Julian as World Emperor
MORE!

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