The Infinite Garden Cycle

“Very compelling and evocative. Jack Hopkins weaves the free energy principle into a remarkably accessible moral framework. It’s a bold and brilliant attempt to connect our best theories of the brain to the ethics of repair.” 

— Dr. Karl Friston, neuroscientist, University College London; Fellow of the Royal Society

“In The Infinite Garden Cycle, Jack Hopkins offers a rich, imaginative, and deeply ethical exploration of unified consciousness.” 

— Dr. Bernardo Kastrup, computer scientist, philosopher, and Executive Director of the Essentia Foundation

“Can accepting that we will die change how it feels to be alive? Hopkins’s reflections on grief and impermanence offer a thoughtful exploration of this question, informed by research on death anxiety.”

— Yair Dor-Ziderman, PhD of Philosophy and Neuroscience, Research Director at University of Haifa

“Looking at Jack Hopkins’s writing, I support the idea that work is necessary to address traumatic histories, and that the ways people do this are highly individualized.” 

— Richard G. Tedeschi, Ph.D., co-originator of posttraumatic growth; Executive Director of the Boulder Crest Institute

“The Infinite Garden Cycle raises weighty questions in neuroscience and ethics. Jack Hopkins carefully distinguishes science and mystery, without flinching from either, and explores human experience not to prove any particular philosophy, but to illuminate our moral lives.” 

— Bruce Greyson, MD, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, University of Virginia School of Medicine; author of After.

“Your work is excellent and I like how you weave these deep philosophical questions about consciousness with the truly human experience of trauma.” 

— Nicholas Cimino, a neuroscience researcher and clinical counsellor

“Jack Hopkins accomplishes something truly rare: taking the philosophy of universal consciousness and turning it into a deeply human ethics of repair. A stunning and original bridge between the metaphysics of mind and moral responsibility.”

— Itay Shani, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy, Sun Yat-sen University