{"product_id":"the-two-phase-cosmology-geoff-dann-9781917558181","title":"The Two-Phase Cosmology","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Two-Phase Cosmology argues that neither science nor philosophy has yet produced a coherent, unified account of existence, and offers a revolutionary alternative.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book proposes a two-phase model of existence. Phase 1 consists of the timeless, non-local domain of physically possible states described by quantum theory, while Phase 2 is the dynamically unfolding world of embodied, classical reality. In this model, consciousness is not an accidental byproduct of matter, nor the whole of being, but the phase transition itself: the process through which a single world is selected from the physically available futures (or histories). The collapse of the quantum wavefunction is the same process.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis framework resolves thirty of the deepest problems in science and philosophy, including the riddle of free will, the nature of time, the evolution of consciousness, and the role of the observer in quantum mechanics. It also offers an integrated, elegant, parsimonious resolution of almost every anomaly that troubles modern cosmology, including the fine-tuning and preferred basis problems, the Hubble and S8 tensions, the cosmological constant problem, the identity of dark matter, the mystery of dark energy, the failure to quantise gravity, and the Fermi paradox. The result is a coherent vision of a participatory cosmos in which value and meaning shape the unfolding of reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is not physicalism, not dualism, not idealism, and not panpsychism, but a quantum neutral monism, closest historically to the work of Kant, Whitehead, James, Bergson, Pauli and Wheeler, and more recently Roger Penrose, Thomas Nagel, Iain McGilchrist and Donald Hoffman, though its roots go all the way back to Anaximander and Pythagoras.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Geoff Dann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 191755818X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781917558181\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Anthropozoic Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/10\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 258\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.54d","brand":"Geoff Dann","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48588476514559,"sku":"9781917558181","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_78829c6d-2e92-4cfb-82f1-e9b2c0759654.jpg?v=1780175091","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-two-phase-cosmology-geoff-dann-9781917558181","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}