What if consciousness isn’t static… but something that must grow?

In this episode of The Vancrux Podcast, I sit down with Mark L. Christensen, author of The Fungus Theory of Conscious Growth, renaissance thinker, science writer, filmmaker, and futurist, to explore one of the most radical and expansive ideas you’ll hear this year.

We dive deep into the idea that everything is science — and all science ultimately serves the growth of consciousness.

Mark unpacks his theory that fungi, as the first multicellular organisms, laid the blueprint for all life — plants, animals, and ultimately humans — functioning as interconnected nodes in a vast evolutionary network. From this foundation, we explore how technology is not separate from nature, but a bio ...