Quantum Pings Library
My Big TOE: A Trilogy Unifying Philosophy, Physics, and Metaphysics
- Type
- Book
- By
- Thomas Campbell
- Publisher
- Lightning Strike Books
- Source
- my-big-toe.com ↗
- Published
- 2003
Campbell's three-volume model of reality: consciousness is fundamental, and the physical world we measure is a low-entropy virtual reality computed by a larger consciousness system. TOE stands for Theory of Everything.
My Big TOE is Thomas Campbell's three-volume attempt at what the title promises: a single model unifying philosophy, physics, and metaphysics. The TOE stands for Theory of Everything, and the everything in question starts with consciousness. Matter, in Campbell's account, is what consciousness looks like from the outside, a low-entropy rendering computed by a larger consciousness system.
The trilogy is the deepest statement of the view this app is built on. It is also, by ordinary scientific standards, not a theory at all: it is self-published, not peer reviewed, and its claims are framed so broadly that they are hard to falsify. Readers tend to split accordingly. Those who want a consciousness-first cosmology find it uniquely complete; those who want equations find it a beautiful story wearing the vocabulary of physics.
The meaning
It is the most complete consciousness-first cosmology in print, and it hands the observer the starring role: nothing is rendered until a conscious being looks. For this app, which turns random quantum noise into meaning, it is the closest thing to a manual.
The skeptic
The trilogy is self-published and not peer reviewed, and its core claims cannot be ruled out by experiment. It is metaphysics wearing the vocabulary of physics, and most working physicists leave it at that.
About the author
Physicist and consciousness researcher; My Big TOE grew out of his work on altered states with the Monroe Institute.
Key takeaways
- A three-volume model with consciousness as fundamental and matter as computed.
- TOE stands for Theory of Everything, Campbell's answer to physics and metaphysics.
- The direct source of this app's claim that meaning requires an observer.