Galileo's Error - Goff

2019

“Physical science is a wonderful thing. And it was only possible because Galileo taught us how to think of matter mathematically. However, Galileo’s philosophy of nature has also bequeathed us deep difficulties. So long as we follow Galileo in thinking (A) that natural science is essentially quantitative and (B) that the qualitative cannot be explained in terms of the quantitative, then consciousness, as an essentially qualitative phenomenon, will be forever locked out of the arena of scientific understanding.”

Goff, Philip. Galileos Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness. Pantheon Books, 2019.