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, [...]

Galileo’s Shadow is a book that pays particular attention to Galileo’s influence on physics.  He is identified as that thinker who laid out the foundation concepts that have ruled that science ever since.  The book’s analysis shows that Galileo made serious philosophical errors in this process.  These errors included:

He divided all physical phenomena into two [...]