TY - BOOK AU - Goff,Philip TI - Galileo's error: foundations for a new science of consciousness SN - 9781524747961 PY - 2019///] CY - New York PB - Pantheon Books KW - Galilei, Galileo, KW - Panpsychism KW - Consciousness N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; How Galileo created the problem of consciousness -- Is there a ghost in the machine? -- Can physical science explain consciousness? -- How to solve the problem of consciousness -- Consciousness and the meaning of life N2 - "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. In Galileo's Error, he has provided the first step on a new path to the final theory of human consciousness."--Dust jacket flap ER -