Fritjof Capra is a world-renowned physicist, systems theorist, educator, activist, and best-selling author. He received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Vienna in 1966 and spent 20 years doing research in theoretical high-energy physics in many respected universities including at the University of Paris, the University of California at Santa Cruz, the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Imperial College London and the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory at the University of California. His many books include The Tao of Physics, The Turning Point, The Web of Life and The Hidden Connections, amongst others. His most recent book, co-authored with Pier Luigi Luisi is The Systems View of Life. Fritjof is also renowned for his work in the ecology movement and is a founding director of the Berkeley-based Center for Ecoliteracy, a Fellow of Schumacher College in the UK and is a council member of the Earth Charter Initiative. In today’s conversation we discuss the systems view of life and the living mirror theory as a solution to the hard problem of consciousness.