A conscious universe? From theories of quantum consciousness, to a participatory anthropic principle governing the universe, astronomical physicists (Matloff, Penrose, Haisch, Koch, Wheeler) are devising ways to put such theories to empirical tests. An example: stars that may consciously emit jets of material to change their trajectories (Paranego's Discontinuity). These efforts are making what would previously have been purely philosophical ideas into experimentally testable hypotheses. This latest merges metaphysics into the realm of physics, tested across the span of an immense universe.

Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/universe-conscious-ncna772956