{"id":173165,"date":"2023-09-30T00:30:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T05:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/is-consciousness-part-of-the-fabric-of-the-universe"},"modified":"2023-09-30T00:30:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T05:30:02","slug":"is-consciousness-part-of-the-fabric-of-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/is-consciousness-part-of-the-fabric-of-the-universe","title":{"rendered":"Is Consciousness Part of the Fabric of the Universe?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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More than 400 years ago, Galileo showed that many everyday phenomena\u2014such as a ball rolling down an incline or a chandelier gently swinging from a church ceiling\u2014obey precise mathematical laws. For this insight, he is often hailed as the founder of modern science. But Galileo recognized that not everything was amenable to a quantitative approach. Such things as colors, tastes and smells \u201care no more than mere names,\u201d Galileo declared, for \u201cthey reside only in consciousness<\/a>.\u201d These qualities aren\u2019t really out there in the world, he asserted, but exist only in the minds of creatures that perceive them. \u201cHence if the living creature were removed,\u201d he wrote, \u201call these qualities would be wiped away and annihilated.\u201d<\/p>\n