Breaking through the consciousness stalemate | Philip Goff
Philosophy For Our Times
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Galileo's Error Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness
One of your books is entitled Galileo's Error Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness. He wanted science to be totally quantitative, totally mathematical. What are we going to do with these qualities? So Galileo got around this by proposing a radically new philosophical theory of reality. And according to that theory, the qualities aren't really out there in the physical world. They're in the consciousness of the observer. Once we've done that, we can capture everything else in mathematics in this purely quantitative language.
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