Died: February 17, 1600, Campo de' Fiori, Rome, Italy
Giordano Bruno was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and cosmological theorist. His cosmological theories, which conceptually extended the then-novel Copernican model.
Consciousness is one possible counterfactual entry point into the hermeneutic meme, which for those that don't know is a concept that I advanced as an individual unit of understanding.