- Paperback: 330 pages
- Publisher: New Gnosis Publications (1 April 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1904519040
- ISBN-13: 978-1904519041
- Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.8 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,797,521 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The most fundamental scientific ‘fact’ is not the existence of the physical universe, but our awareness of that universe. Not even the most advanced physics, physiology or psychology, however, can explain even the most elementary qualities of our sensory awareness of that universe - qualities such as ‘redness’ for example. ‘Qualia’ used to be defined as sensory qualities such as colour and tone. But what if awareness is not an empty receptable for sensory impressions, but has its own intrinsic sensual qualities – of the sort we experience as the inwardly sensed shape and substantiality of our bodies, the sensed ‘lightness’ or ‘darkness’ ‘colour’ or ‘tone’ of our moods, or a sensed feeling of ‘warmth’ or ‘coolness’, ‘closeness’ or ‘distance’ to another human being? What if such sensual qualities of awareness are intrinsically meaningful – being the felt essence of meaning or sense?
In The Qualia Revolution Peter Wilberg puts forward the radical hypothesis that it is not energetic ‘quanta’ but qualia in this sense – sensed and sensual qualities of awareness – that are the basic stuff of which the universe is composed. It argues that qualia are not simply qualities of our own human awareness but fundamental units of awareness. Atoms, molecules and cells are recognised as the physical form taken by field-patterns of atomic, molecular and cellular awareness composed of such units. The ‘soul’ is understood as an ever-changing gestalt of such units, each of which possess characteristics of both unit and field, particle and wave - allowing the soul-qualities of our own awareness to mix and merge with those of all other beings.
Drawing on the dynamic field-phenomenology of Michael Kosok, the SETH books of Jane Roberts, and Eugene Gendlin’s philosophy of directly felt meaning or ‘sense’, The Qualia Revolution rearticulates Rudolf Steiner’s vision of a truly "spiritual science" of nature and man, and Karl Marx vision of a "natural science of man" that is at the same time a "human science of nature". It lays the theoretical foundations for a Cosmic Qualia Science with immediate practical implications in such key areas of human life as ethics and economics, education and medicine.
Cosmic Qualia Science represents a most radical shift in our understanding of what constitutes ‘science’ and ‘scientific knowledge’ - not merely a ‘quantum leap’ but a Qualia Revolution. Starting from the understanding that it is not energetic fields but fields and field-qualities of awareness that constitute the fundamental nature of reality, it challenges the foundations of both conventional energy-science and New Age pseudo-science, with its talk of ‘subtle energies’ and ‘energy medicine’. In their place it presents a qualitative physics of consciousness and the cosmos in which GOD not only might but must have a place – as that primordial field of awareness that is the source of all qualia and all quantised energy.
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A New Theory of EveryTHING,
This review is from: The Qualia Revolution: From Quantum Physics to Cosmic Qualia Science (Paperback)
Nowadays, books appear all the time which promise or offer us a new THEORY OF EVERYTHING. Usually these deal with 'quantum physics' - abstruse theories of energetic fields, 'strings' and 'quanta'. THE QUALIA REVOLUTION is also a 'Theory of Everything'. But unlike these other books, its basis is not the mathematical physics of 'quantised' energy but our everyday qualitative experience of things. What makes it truly revolutionary is that it raises a fundamental question that ALL theories of EVERYTHING have previously ignored - what actually is a THING - ANY THING? To answer this question Peter Wilberg first reminds us that the most fundamental scientific 'fact' of all time is not the existence of a universe of things but our own subjective awareness of those things. "We are such stuff as dreams are made on." Shakespeare The truly original and profound insight on which THE QUALIA REVOLUTION is founded is that 'consciousness' or 'awareness' is not like a mirror or blank sheet on which we register our perceptions of things and their sensory qualities. Instead awareness has its own sensed but immaterial substantiality - it is the very "stuff" of which we and all things are made. Awareness also has its own innate sensual qualities or QUALIA. Examples of qualia are the felt 'light' and 'darkness', 'colour' or 'tone','levity' or 'gravity', 'expansivenes' or 'density' of our moods - and of our inwardly sensed body. "If matter is the outwardness of energy, then awareness is its inwardness." Peter Wilberg THE QUALIA REVOLUTION explains why EVERYTHING we experience around us, the entire outer universe of bodies in space-time is NOT ultimately an expression of quantitative energy fields and energy units - so-called QUANTA - but of qualitative fields and units of awareness - QUALIA. For anyone with an interest in a new and totally original philosophy of science, in the physics and physiology of consciousness, in phenomenology and phenomenological science, or in theosophy and spiritual science, this book is a must - as it is to those familiar with the alternative scientific philosophies of Bohm, Seth/Jane Roberts, Rudolf Steiner, Eugene Gendlin, Karl Marx, Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. What Peter Wilberg calls COSMIC QUALIA SCIENCE looks set to be the science of the new millennium, a unified field theory uniting sciences as diverse as physics and psychology, cosmology and semiotics, genetics and linguistics. For it shows how even the most abstract scientific MODELS of the outer physical universe are essentially no more than METAPHORS of an inner psychical universe - a sensual universe of soul and of soul qualities. This inner psychical universe is one whose countless dimensions each of us can inwardly explore and research in great detail and with great precision, even without the use of physical instruments. Yet through our own direct experience of QUALIA we can shed new light on EVERYTHING, experiencing the aware inwardness or 'soul' of each and every 'THING' in the outer physical universe itself.
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This review is from: The Qualia Revolution: From Quantum Physics to Cosmic Qualia Science (Paperback)
Wilberg's 'Qualia Revolution' is easily one of the three (maybe four) most monumental, moving, stupendous works I have had the privilege of reading. He was slow and turgid getting started, but then took wings. I could go on and on, but will spare you. I let the book sit for a week or so after reading, to let the edge of my enthusiasm settle a bit.
From Joseph Chilton Pearce, author of 'Crack in the Cosmic Egg', 'The Biology of Transcendence' and 'The Death of Religion and Rebirth of Spirit'
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This review is from: The Qualia Revolution: From Quantum Physics to Cosmic Qualia Science (Paperback)
Wilberg's 'Qualia Revolution' is easily one of the three (maybe four) most monumental, moving, stupendous works I have had the privilege of reading. He was slow and turgid getting started, but then took wings. I could go on and on, but will spare you. I let the book sit for a week or so after reading, to let the edge of my enthusiasm settle a bit.
From Joseph Chilton Pearce, author of 'Crack in the Cosmic Egg', 'The Biology of Transcendence' and 'The Death of Religion and Rebirth of Spirit' |
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