Charles Scurlock Is a retired architect, an amateur (that is, academically uncredentialled) physicist, and a generalist thinker who has been pondering the discontinuities and contradictions of modern physics and cosmology for most of his intellectual life. A dedicated systems thinker, always interested in finding solutions to complex problems whether in his own brain or in the interactions between the embodied brains of others, he has concentrated for the last several years on two closely entangled fields: models of the universe, and the evolution of the contemplative mind that can intuit, ima...