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Galileo's Dream

Kim Stanley Robinson

The winner of every major science fiction award, Kim Stanley Robinson is a novelist who looks ahead with optimism even while acknowledging the steep challenges facing our planet and species: a clear-eyed realist who has not forgotten how to dream. His new novel offers his most audacious dream yet. A...

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Philosophize This!

In this book, Philip Goff explores the idea that a fundamental mistake in our theoretical models may have rendered science incapable of fully explaining consciousness, suggesting a need to reintegrate qualitative experiences into scientific understanding.

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Philip Goff in 2019 wrote a book called Galileo's Heir where in it, he talks about what he thinks is a fundamental mistake in the theoretical models we use to understand our reality.

— Episode: Episode #180 ... What if everything is c...

Episode: Episode #180 ... What if everything is consciousne...

In this book, Philip Goff explores the idea that a fundamental mistake in our theoretical models may have rendered science incapable of fully explaining consciousness, suggesting a need to reintegrate qualitative experiences into scientific understanding.

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Philip Goff in 2019 wrote a book called Galileo's Heir where in it, he talks about what he thinks is a fundamental mistake in the theoretical models we use to understand our reality.

And it's a mistake that may have made science in its current form, incapable of ever being able to explain consciousness fully.

Check out his book on Amazon, Galileo's Error, referenced on the episode here today.

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