‘Your awareness,’ he said. ‘That is a new quality in the Universe, which exists only because there are human beings. Physicists must from now on, when pondering the secrets of the Cosmos, factor in not only energy and matter and time, but something very new and beautiful, which is human awareness…I have thought of a better word than awareness,’ he said. ‘Let us call it soul.’ — Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake