Bobby AzarianĀ is a science journalist and a cognitive neuroscientist with a PhD from George Mason University. Heās the author of the bookĀ The Romance of Reality: How the Universe Organizes Itself to Create Life, Consciousness, and Cosmic Complexity, which became an Amazon bestseller in the Cosmology category. He has written for publications includingĀ The Atlantic, The New York Times, BBC,Ā Scientific American, Slate, The Huffington Post, Psychology Today, andĀ Big Think. His research has been published in academic journals such asĀ Human Brain Mapping, Cognition & Emotion,Ā andĀ Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Azarian worked on Season 2 of the YouTube Premium psychology-based seriesĀ Mind FieldĀ (as a consultant and researcher), which helped the show win its first Emmy nomination. He has appeared onĀ The Joe Rogan Experience, The Michael Shermer Show, The David Pakman Show, andĀ The Young TurksĀ to discuss his work. He is the creator of the Road to Omega Substack, and is based in Springfield, Virginia.