10/02/2026
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Thomas Campbell is an applied physicist and consciousness researcher who has worked on large-system risk and vulnerability analysis, including consulting work connected with NASA. He is best known today for his My Big TOE model of reality.
Campbell proposes that consciousness is fundamental and that the physical universe behaves more like an information-based virtual reality than an independently existing material world. In his model, our bodies are essentially avatars through which consciousness experiences this reality.
He argues that free-will choices provide feedback to a larger consciousness system. Decisions driven by cooperation, compassion and what he calls “love” supposedly reduce the system’s entropy, while fear, selfishness and disorder move consciousness in the opposite direction.
This leads to one of his most unusual ideas: information about our choices is retained by the larger system, allowing consciousness to learn and evolve through experience. Life, in this framework, becomes something like an enormous interactive learning environment.
Campbell has spent decades discussing altered states of consciousness, remote viewing, out-of-body experiences and whether consciousness could exist independently of the brain.
However, these ideas should be separated from established physics. There is currently no accepted scientific evidence that the universe records human decisions to measure spiritual growth, that humans are avatars in a consciousness simulation, or that reality is designed to push us toward love. These are claims within Campbell’s theoretical and philosophical framework, not conclusions established by NASA or mainstream physics.
What makes the idea interesting is the question underneath it: if consciousness is more fundamental than we currently understand, how much of what we call “reality” might depend on the observer?
Source: Thomas Campbell, My Big TOE; The Science of Consciousness Conference
