Until we recognize the essential role of biology, our attempts to truly unify the universe will remain a train to nowhere.

That's absolutely correct and in addition to that life just isn't an accident of the laws of physics. There's a long list of experiments that suggest just the opposite.

Without consciousness, space and time are nothing.

Death is simply a break in our linear stream of consciousness.

When you turn from one room to the next, when your animal senses no longer perceive the sounds of the dishwasher, the ticking clock, the smell of a chicken roasting - the kitchen and all its seemingly discrete bits dissolve into nothingness - or into waves of probability.

Until we recognize the essential role of biology, our attempts to truly unify the universe will remain a train to nowhere.

We have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond what is observable in nature.