A Universe Awake

On Consciousness at Every Scale

von Omair Qasim

142 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

What if mind is not a rare accident in a dead universe, but the very architecture of things - recurring at every scale, from the firing of a single neuron to the slow turning of the galaxies? A Universe Awake takes one startling possibility and follows it with patience and rigor: that the cosmos resembles a mind not by metaphor but by measurement, its galaxies branching like neurons, its dark matter scaffolding the bright nodes like the brain's own silent architecture, its dimensions behaving like the channels of perception through which a single reality reads itself. Across eighteen chapters, Omair Qasim moves from the structure of the cosmic web to the weather of felt time, from the senses that build your daily world to the contested edges of perception where something seems to look back. This is not a book that asks you to believe. It asks only that you look - closely, warmly, and without flinching - at the quiet possibility that you are not a spectator of the universe but one of the countless places where it perceives itself. Written for readers of popular science, philosophy of mind, and contemplative non-fiction alike, it is a field guide to consciousness at every scale, and to the strange, humbling intimacy of being awake inside a universe that may, in some sense we are only beginning to ask about, be awake inside you.