The Priority of Mind

By: Keith Ward

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Paperback | 12 November 2021

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Is the mind just a by-product of the brain? Or is mind the fundamental reality, which creates matter? This book is a defense of mind as prior to matter. It is a philosophical work, written in an accessible style, which explains idealism as the teaching of most classical philosophers, and as most consistent with modern science.

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“Let us be clear that for each of us the primary reality is consciousness—everything else is derivative.”
—John Eccles, Neurophysiologist

“The evolutionary assumption implies that consciousness is efficacious—that it is not an epiphenomenon.”
—Gerald Edelman, Neurobiologist

“Consciousness is the phenomenon whereby the universe’s very existence is made known.”
—Roger Penrose, Oxford Mathematician

“It [an event] has not really happened . . . until it is an observed phenomenon.”
—John Wheeler, Mathematical Physicist

“The content of consciousness is an ultimate reality.”
—Eugene Wigner, Nobel Laureate

“All real things are contents of consciousness.”
—John von Neumann, Quantum Physicist

“I regard consciousness as fundamental—matter is derivative from consciousness.”
—Max Planck, Physicist

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