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🗓️ 17 November 2019
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Galileo Galilei is widely considered to be the father of modern science and one of the greatest philosophers to have lived. Galileo played a pivotal role in the developments of the scientific revolution, overturning key tenets of Aristotelian physics and most significantly, advocating mathematics as the language of science. For Galileo, the physics of the past was plagued with unhelpful sensory qualities like colours, tastes, smells and sounds; for science to make progress, he thought, ‘the book of the universe’ must be written in a purely quantitative language.
For Durham University’s Philip Goff, this was Galileo’s Error. The hard problem of consciousness was born when Galileo stripped consciousness away from the scientific picture. Somehow, we must find a way back. We must lay the foundations for a new science - a new science of consciousness.
Contents
Part I. Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness
Part II. Further Analysis and Discussion
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0:00.0 | Galileo Galilei is widely considered to be the father of modern science and one of the greatest philosophers to have lived. |
0:14.3 | Galileo played a pivotal role in the developments of the scientific revolution, |
0:18.5 | overturning key tenets of Aristotelian physics, and most significantly, |
0:22.7 | advocating mathematics as the language of science. For Galileo, the physics of the past was |
0:27.9 | played with unhelpful sensory qualities, like colours, taste, smells and sounds. For science to make |
0:33.6 | progress, he thought, the book of the universe must be written in a purely quantitative |
0:38.6 | language. For Durham University's Philip Goff, this was Galileo's error. The hard problem of consciousness |
0:44.5 | was born when Galileo stripped consciousness away from the scientific picture. Somehow, we must find a way |
0:50.7 | back. We must lay the foundations for a new science, a new science of consciousness. |
0:57.0 | As always, thank you to Cullum St. Gabriel's and the West Hill Endowment, as well as all |
1:02.5 | of our loyal patrons for supporting the show. |
1:05.5 | In particular, thank you to the six individuals re-enchanting the universe and imbueing it |
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1:36.1 | the panpsychast to show your support. A link is also available in the iTunes description. |
1:41.6 | In part one, we're going to be looking at the foundations |
1:44.2 | for a new science of consciousness, |
1:46.1 | and in part two, we'll be engaging in some further analyses |
1:49.2 | and discussion. |
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