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I chose physics and cognitive sciences because those are the only subjects that are actually asking the right questions. I think we will come up with a new theory soon, probably based on experimental data from the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. I think it is a stretch to say that the theory will encompass "everything". It will be more like the next order of approximation, although it presumably will encompass a lot of things - gravity, dark matter, dark energy, the origin of mass, why there are more particles than antiparticles, the Higgs Field, the nature of quarks, and also I think mind/consciousness will play the biggest role in the new theory. I think the hardest part of coming up with a new theory is that we must accept that phenomena of the mind are completely mathematical, and that we do not actually have individual minds, but rather our experiences are merely excitations of a single quantum field. This theory would allow for technological control of the mind, mind reading, etc. This seems like the next step to me. The reason a new theory has been so hard to come by is twofold - the mathematics are above the heads of even most mathematicians, and the implications about the mind are something most people don't even dare think about. I think that about sums up where our scientific theories are at - we are just starting to learn the secrets of biology, and it will turn out to be very mathematical. There is a good book entitled "Physical control of the mind: Toward a Psychocivilized Society" by José Manuel Rodriguez Delgado, who was a professor of physiology at Yale.