…and law from which ultimately comes the laws of nature. So that all the founding fathers of mechanistic science, Copernicus, Galileo, Descartes, Kepler and Newton, were either Platonists or Pythagoreans, who saw in maths a kind of higher reality, a…

…of space and time, and who saw the business of science as finding the mathematical patterns underlying the natural world. As Galileo expressed it, the universe was a book written in a mathematical language. And as the physicist James Jeans put it, the…

…space and time, are ideas in the mind of God. In the 17th century, the founding fathers of modern science, Kepler, Galileo, Copernicus, Newton, all believed that science was in the business of finding out the eternal mathematical laws of nature which were…

…great revival in the Renaissance, and this had a great impact on the founding fathers of modern science, Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Descartes, and so on. They were really more Pythagoreans than Platonists, but these two ways of thinking are closely…

…forward magic instead of science. And that can be condemned in exactly the language that the popes used to condemn Galileo. And for the same reasons. It is heresy. Others question Sheldrake's real motives. I think it's an interesting sociological question…

…them. Well, these are immediately banned from regular science because they violate the first of science's taboos, established by Galileo in the early 17th century, the taboo against perpetual motion machines. This taboo long predated the laws of thermodynamics,…

…Western theory of the mind has been based, that it's all in the brain. Ever since the beginnings of Western science, both Galileo and Kepler thought it was all inside the brain. That's one of the ways in which they rejected the medieval theories which…

…exact quotation. Do you know anything about that? Well, Descartes, people had to be careful at that time what they said. I mean, Galileo had had a rough time with the Roman Inquisition. It wasn't that rough. I mean, in the history of science, it's often…

…dungeons of the Inquisition. Nothing of the kind. He had a rather civilized trial. The Cardinal Bellamine, who was the prosecutor, said to Galileo, look, there's no problem if you say that the Earth goes round the Sun and this is a model, a better model…

…is a model, a better model or a better mathematical model, but you can't say it's the truth because it's just a model. And Galileo said, no, it's the truth. And the Cardinal said, it's fine to say it's a model, but Galileo insisted on saying it's the…

…because it's just a model. And Galileo said, no, it's the truth. And the Cardinal said, it's fine to say it's a model, but Galileo insisted on saying it's the truth and he was put under house arrest as a result. I mean, it was a pretty mild…

…And then he went on to say, that can be condemned with exactly the same language that the Pope used to condemn Galileo, It's heresy, it's pure heresy. That blew my mind, because when did science adopt the principles of the Christian church? Well, exactly.…

…of the Christian church? Well, exactly. I mean, it's a very unfortunate parallel that he chose, isn't it? Especially since Galileo turned out to be right. So, for some reason, I provoke irrational responses in some people. Luckily, not in everybody,…

…So basically the people I'm up against are the scientific fundamentalists. Absolutely. And the parallels, as you note, that he chose Galileo just blew my mind. Yes. Because he was right. I know. It's incredible, isn't it? And the video, when you see…

…space and time, are ideas in the mind of God. In the 17th century, the founding fathers of modern science, Kepler, Galileo, Copernicus, Newton, all believed that science was in the business of finding out the eternal mathematical laws of nature, which were…

…the entire worldview up until the 17th century the scientific revolution and the scientific revolution with particularly a vision that came to Galileo in 1619 he had a dream a vision in which he saw the whole universe as a machine the universe was like…

…them. Well, these are immediately banned from regular science because they violate the first of science's taboos established by Galileo in the early 17th century, the taboo against perpetual motion machines. This taboo long predated the laws of thermodynamics,…

…I'll leave it to someone else to explain that. That's where the situation has remained ever since. And the thing is that Galileo then followed on with the idea that the world out there is made up of physical matter with weight, mass, momentum, etc.…

…though many modern scientists are atheists, the founding fathers of modern science were all interested in theology, Newton, Descartes, Galileo, Kepler and others. And they thought that the mind of God worked mathematically. Mathematicians love the idea that God…

…with Christianity. We often have this view that science and Christianity are opposed to each other, like the pioneering scientist Galileo versus the Pope and so on. But really, historically, they developed side by side and were highly complementary. This idea…

…the the end of of modernity or modernism in sight and uh And some need to reach back sort of, I don't know, before Galileo or before to the pre-Socratics or whatever. But I think we're probably all, in a sense, solitary people with solo lives. And so…

…out not to be right? Where are those people? No one writes biographies of them. All the alternative people think they're Galileo going up against the church. But most of the people in the past several centuries that had these alternative theories, they…

…forward magic instead of science, and that can be condemned in exactly the language that the popes used to condemn Galileo. And for the same reasons. It is heresy. Others question Sheldrake's real motives. I think it's an interesting sociological question…

…mechanical. But the founders of modern science in the 17th century, like Newton and Descartes and Robert Boyle and Kepler and Galileo were not atheists. They were Christians, but they had a very dualistic view of God separated from nature. so there were…

…scientists have been spent a lot of time, decades, centuries arguing against subjective experience as a valid data, secondary qualities Galileo dismissed as you know just being produced in minds and not like primary qualities mass matter you know with volume…

…on science which i sometimes doubt which is it is progressing but anyways after 400 years that's my summary since Galileo we've realized with consciousness studies and neuroscience in particular that this first distinction was very fruitful for many years and…

…to its logical conclusion, but if you do, this is the logical conclusion. This is the development of the movement started by Galileo and Descartes. If you say memories, what are you talking about? From which memories are we built up? Which stories did we…

…turned out not to be right? Where are those people? No one writes biographies of them. All the alternative people think they're Galileo going up against the church. But most of the people in the past several centuries that had these alternative, they were…

…great revival in the 17th century. The founding fathers of modern science in the 16th and 17th century, Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Descartes, all thought that what they were doing was discovering the eternal mathematical laws of nature, which were…