Science and the Reenchantment of the Cosmos by Ervin Laszlo

"The evolution of life in the Metaverse is a cyclical process with a learning curve. Each universe starts without life, evolves life when some planets become capable of supporting it, and wipes it out when planetary conditions pass beyond the life-supporting stage. But the quantum vacuum is shared by all universes, and it records and conserves the wave-form traces of all the life that has evolved. As the cosmic vacuum becomes more and more modulated with the traces of life, it becomes more and more favorable to life. It speeds up evolutionary processes wherever they get under way."