Dr. James B. Glattfelder is an author, academic, and quantitative researcher whose work bridges physics, complexity science, and the philosophy of consciousness. He holds a Master's in theoretical physics and a PhD in the study of complex systems, both from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich. As a doctoral researcher, he co-authored The Network of Global Corporate Control, a landmark study mapping the architecture of ownership across the global economy. He is the author of two major works integrating physics, philosophy, complexity science, and the study of consciousness: Information—Consciousness—Reality and his most recent book, The Sapient Cosmos: What a Modern Synthesis of Science and Philosophy Teaches Us About the Emergence of Information, Consciousness, and Meaning, which offers what he calls syncretic idealism — a wide-ranging integration of complexity science, analytic idealism, the perennial wisdom traditions, and the contemporary philosophy of consciousness.