Could consciousness be dark energy? The more time that goes by in the universe the more intelligent life exists, accelerating the expansion nearly exponentially! Copyrighted idea by me hands off :)
from what i've heard, 'dark energy' is almost like a categorical name which scientists have given to all the remaining energy they don't understand. it's my understanding that as soon as they understand it they will probably stop calling it that ...... and it has also generally been my understanding that scientists still don't totally understand consciousness .......... or maybe they do actually, i haven't gone outside in a while, actually that's not true i go outside once a day but i don't typically see any scientists, so they could be way further ahead now, in all fairness