Book Rating (1)
Narrator Rating (1)

Galileo's Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness

Unabridged Audio Book

Download On Audiobooks.com
Stream On Audiobooks.com

Download or Stream instantly more than 55,000 audiobooks.
Listen to "Galileo's Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness" on your iOS and Android device.

Don't have an iOS or Android device, then listen in your browse on any PC or Mac computer.

Author:

Narrator:

Length:

Publisher:

Date:

Maxwell Caulfield

8 Hours 4 Minutes

Random House (Audio)

November 2019

Audio Book Summary

From a leading philosopher of the mind comes this lucid, provocative argument that offers a radically new picture of human consciousness--panpsychism

Understanding how brains produce consciousness is one of the great scientific challenges of our age. Some philosophers argue that consciousness is something 'extra,' beyond the physical workings of the brain. Others think that if we persist in our standard scientific methods, our questions about consciousness will eventually be answered. And some suggest that the mystery is so deep, it will never be solved.

In Galileo's Error, Philip Goff offers an exciting alternative that could pave the way forward. Rooted in an analysis of the philosophical underpinnings of modern science and based on the early twentieth-century work of Arthur Eddington and Bertrand Russell, Goff makes the case for panpsychism, a theory which posits that consciousness is not confined to biological entities but is a fundamental feature of all physical matter--from subatomic particles to the human brain. Here is the first step on a new path to the final theory of human consciousness.


Cover image: Gold Beam Collision Recorded at STAR. Copyright Brookhaven National Laboratory (Creative Commons). Full image available at Flickr.com.

Similar Audio Books

Reviews

  • Anonymous

    Very well written. I would have given a 5-star rating if it weren't for the very odd departure from the topic of consciousness into a lecture on climate change (towards the end of the book). While I mostly agree with the authors point of view, lamenting on the perils of climate change was a distraction from the otherwise thoughtful discussion on Idealism.

    Book Rating