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Galileo's Qualities in Consciousness
- Galileo proposed that qualities like color and taste are not in objects but in consciousness.
- This distinction led to a world view separating quantitative physical matter from qualitative consciousness.
Science's Limits on Consciousness
- Contemporary science struggles to explain consciousness because it excludes qualities from physical descriptions.
- Galileo's quantitative science was designed to exclude consciousness, making it unexplainable by standard physical science methods.
Russell and Eddington's Panpsychism
- Bertrand Russell and Arthur Eddington noted physical science describes matter's behavior, not its intrinsic nature.
- Placing consciousness as the intrinsic nature of matter forms a scientific panpsychism uniting qualitative and quantitative aspects.