This book examines the role that human subjective experience plays in the creation of reality and introduces a new concept, the Bubble Universe, to describe the universe as it looks from the subjective viewpoint of an individual. Drawing on a range of research, the author questions the extent to which the scientific study of the origins of life, consciousness and subjective experience is itself influenced by scientists subjective worlds.
The author argues that in many respects the Bubble Universe differs from the universe as described by science and religion, and analyzes these differences. The fabric and structure of subjective reality is described, and various aspects of the Bubble Universe are examined, including science, religion, life, morality and history. The differences between the views from inside the subjective universe and from scientific, religious and sociocultural versions of the universe are outlined, and their significance for practical and theoretical problems are highlighted and illustrated with psychological experiments. This book will be of value to all scholars interested in how subjectivity influences research and appeal in particular to those working in developmental and theoretical psychology, consciousness, epistemology, phenomenology, and the philosophy of science and of the mind.
Part I. The Bubbleverse.
Chapter
1. Introduction.
Chapter
2. What and
why of the Bubbleverse.
Chapter
3. Grounding the Bubbleverse.
Chapter
4.
Fabric of the Bubbleverse.
Chapter
5. The Diversity of the Phenomenal
World.
Chapter
6. Self in Multiple Universes.
Chapter
7. Structure of the
Bubbleverse.- Part II. Cognizing the Bubbleverse.
Chapter
8. The Black Hole
of Consciousness.
Chapter
9. Truth in the Bubbleverse.
Chapter
10.
Exploring the Bubbleverse.- Part III. Expanding the Bubbleverse.
Chapter
11.
The Great Replacemen in Perspective: the Hi-story of Science.
Chapter
12.
The Hi-story of Religion.
Chapter
13. The Hi-story of the Bubbleverse.-
Chapter
14. The Hi-story of Life.- Part IV. Experiencing the Bubbleverse.-
Chapter
15. Transcending the Bubbleverse.
Chapter
16. Properties of the
Bubbleverse.
Chapter
17. The cosmic train: a summary of sorts.- The
mysteries of the Bubbleverse: Epilogue.
Eugene Subbotsky is Reader Emeritus of Psychology at Lancaster University, UK, an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS), and a BPS Charted Psychologist. His research focuses on moral development, childrens metaphysical reasoning, magical thinking and behavior over life span, human consciousness and cognition and he has conducted cross-cultural research in Russia, Germany, UK, USA and Mexico. He is the author of 14 books including, Science and Magic in the Modern World (2018), The Child as a Cartesian Thinker (2015), Magic and the Mind (2010), The Birth of Personality (1993) and Foundations of the Mind (1993).
