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The Bubble Universe: Psychological Perspectives on Reality

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Authors:
  1. Eugene Subbotsky

    1. Psychology, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK

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  • Argues that our view of reality is fundamentally and irreversibly obscured by our subjective perspective on reality
  • Highlights and analyses the differences between the psychological universe and the universe described by sciences
  • Cautions that subjective experience as a part of the private psychological universe cannot be causally inferred from scientific concepts

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvii
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  2. The BubbleverseBubbleverse

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • Eugene Subbotsky
      Pages 3-15

    3. What and Why of the Bubbleverse

      • Eugene Subbotsky
      Pages 17-37

    4. Grounding the Bubbleverse

      • Eugene Subbotsky
      Pages 39-64

    5. The Fabric of the Bubbleverse

      • Eugene Subbotsky
      Pages 65-82

    6. The Diversity of the Phenomenal World

      • Eugene Subbotsky
      Pages 83-111

    7. Self in Multiple Universes

      • Eugene Subbotsky
      Pages 113-138

    8. Structure of the Bubbleverse

      • Eugene Subbotsky
      Pages 139-155

  3. Cognizing Cognising the BubbleverseBubbleverse

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157
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  4. Cognizing Cognising the BubbleverseBubbleverse

    1. The Black Hole of the Bubbleverse

      • Eugene Subbotsky
      Pages 159-180

    2. Truth in the Bubbleverse

      • Eugene Subbotsky
      Pages 181-194

    3. Exploring the Bubbleverse

      • Eugene Subbotsky
      Pages 195-216

  5. Expanding the BubbleverseBubbleverse

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 217-217
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    2. The Great Replacement in Perspective: The Hi-story of Science

      • Eugene Subbotsky
      Pages 219-249

    3. The Hi-story of Religion

      • Eugene Subbotsky
      Pages 251-266

    4. The Hi-story of the Bubbleverse

      • Eugene Subbotsky
      Pages 267-284

    5. The Hi-story of Life

      • Eugene Subbotsky
      Pages 285-305

  6. Experiencing the BubbleverseBubbleverse

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 307-307
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    2. Transcending the Bubbleverse

      • Eugene Subbotsky
      Pages 309-325
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About this book

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.



Authors and Affiliations

  • Psychology, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK

    Eugene Subbotsky

About the author

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, children’s 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).

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