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The Aware Universe: What consciousness, cosmology, and the expanding void might be telling us about where we are

by Martin Rothery
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798198765160
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published
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  • Pages: 448
  • Original Price: GBP 19.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 595 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Physics / Quantum Theory

What if consciousness is not what the brain produces, but what the universe is made of?

After thirty-eight years as a therapist - and a lifetime of obsessive reading across physics, theology, philosophy, and contemplative traditions - Martin Rothery asks the question that sits at the intersection of all of them. Not as mysticism.

Not as speculation dressed as science. As an honest reckoning with what the best physics of the last hundred years actually shows, and where it points when you are willing to follow it.

The universe began from nothing, produced a rounding error of matter, and has been expanding toward darkness ever since. At the quantum level it does not have definite properties independent of observation. It is not locally real. Its most fundamental conservation law does not hold globally. And none of this is controversial. It is what the experiments show.

The hard problem of consciousness has resisted every materialist attempt to dissolve it for thirty years. Every major contemplative tradition in human history, developed independently across cultures and millennia, arrives at the same structural conclusion. The quantum measurement problem and the testimony of the mystics are pointing at the same territory from different directions.

The Aware Universe brings all of it together. The physics, the philosophy, the theology, the contemplative traditions, and the specific quality of the present moment - the fragmentation, the thinning of experience, the loss of coherent meaning - read in the largest available frame.

A companion volume to the Strangers trilogy. The same restlessness. The same refusal to stop at the explanation that almost works. A much bigger sky.

From the author of Strangers in Charge, Strangers Inside, and Strangers All Around.

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