The Self-Aware Universe

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Penguin, Mar 21, 1995 - Science - 336 pages
In this stimulating and timely book, Amit Goswami, PhD, shatters the widely popular belief held by Western science that matter is the primary "stuff" of creation and proposes instead that consciousness is the true foundation of all we know and perceive.
 
His explanation of quantum physics for lay readers, called "a model of clarity" by Kirkus Reviews, sets the stage for a voyage of discovery through the common ground of science and religion, the entwined nature of mind and body, and our interconnectedness with all of creation.
 

Contents

Title Page
THE OLD PHYSICS AND ITS PHILOSOPHICAL LEGACY
THE PHILOSOPHY OF MONISTIC IDEALISM
IDEALISM AND THE RESOLUTION OF
THE NINE LIVES OF SCHRÖDINGERS
THE RECONCILIATION OF REALISM AND IDEALISM
IN SEARCH OF THE QUANTUM MIND
PARADOXES AND TANGLED HIERARCHIES
THE I OF CONSCIOUSNESS
THE REENCHANTMENT OF THE PERSON
THE AWAKENING OF BUDDHI
AN IDEALIST THEORY OF ETHICS
GLOSSARY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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About the author (1995)

Amit Goswami, PhD, is a theoretical quantum physicist and a retired professor from the University of Oregon’s Department of Physics, where he served from 1968 to 1997. He is a pioneer of the new paradigm of science called “science within consciousness,” an idea he explicates in his seminal book, The Self-Aware Universe, in which he also solves the quantum measurement problem elucidating the famous observer effect. Dr. Goswami has written several popular books based on his research on quantum physics and consciousness, including Physics of the Soul and Quantum Economics: Unleashing the Power of an Economics of Consciousness.

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