The message from Quantum Mechanics is very clear: man and nature are intimately connected in mutual participation.  Man’s presence is in fact indispensable when it comes to the existence of natural phenomena and there is no way to interpret quantum theory without encountering consciousness.  All this runs counter to our ordinary experience of the world, [...]

Until Galileo and the Renaissance, man was firmly at the center of his universe, as defined and illustrated by scientists and philosophers alike.  This belief was perhaps best shown in the geocentric model of the solar system, started by the Egyptian astronomer, Ptolemy, nearly two thousand years ago, to which many others contributed before it became [...]