Galileo’s Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness Audiobook (Free)

From a leading philosopher of your brain comes this lucid, provocative argument that offers a radically new picture of human consciousness–panpsychism

Focusing on how brains create consciousness is one of the great scientific challenges of our age group. Some philosophers argue that consciousness is definitely something ‘extra,’ beyond the physical workings of the brain. Others believe that if we persist in our regular scientific methods, our queries about awareness will eventually end up being answered. Plus some about Galileo’s Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness suggest that the mystery is so deep, it will never be solved.

In Galileo’s Mistake, Philip Goff provides an interesting alternative that could pave just how forward. Rooted within an analysis of the philosophical underpinnings of modern science and based on the first twentieth-century function of Arthur Eddington and Bertrand Russell, Goff makes the case for panpsychism, a theory which posits that awareness is not confined to natural entities but is usually a fundamental feature of most physical matter–from subatomic particles to the human brain. This is actually the first rung on the ladder on a new path to the final theory of human being consciousness.

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