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Reviewed by Jamie Michele for Readers' Favorite
Clement Decrop’s The Idea Space presents a detailed framework linking consciousness, perception, and the structure of reality through the concept of an “idea space.” This space encompasses thoughts, sensations, and awareness as an immeasurable, continuously changing domain where consciousness selects content. The author introduces three categories of idea spaces, closed, open, and clopen, with clopen’s capacity to hold contradictory states simultaneously. Drawing on mathematics and physics, he applies topological and set theory principles to describe the mind’s structure, emphasizing the uncountability and impermanence of ideas. Decrop connects mindfulness and meditation to navigating this idea space, defining them as specific modes of attention rather than thought elimination. He also examines physical cosmology, gravity, spacetime, and the self as layered constructs within nested scales. Decrop integrates scientific and philosophical perspectives to propose a cohesive understanding of mental and cosmic phenomena.
The Idea Space: The Science of Awakening Your Non-Self by Clement Decrop is an ambitious and original work that merges science, mathematics, philosophy, and meditative practice into a unified model of consciousness and the universe. Decrop introduces “idea space” as a central construct, and he does an excellent job of taking theories that are completely outside my purview of understanding, but makes them perfectly accessible. I most enjoyed his sections on black holes and, as someone of Asian descent, connected closely to the koans, which are anecdotes, and a variety of which I used to hear from my grandmother alongside parables and even rhetorical questions. The author's are different and applied in his own way, but it is still an addition that feels personal. The figures are helpful, especially in how they visualize and perceptively communicate beyond the text. Overall, this is an intriguing reframe of reality, and I think those with an interest in similar concepts will enjoy and learn from it. Very highly recommended.
