The Immaterial Mind and the Interaction Problem

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Princess Elizabeth was the first to raise this problem of how the immaterial mind is supposed to interact with the body. Are there many? actual hardcore substance dualists hanging around these days Yeah, I see departments just a quick word on Princess Elizabeth it's so so she was expressing worries about the intelligibility of The relationship between something physical and something non-physical It's more of that would be a more philosophical worry These days is more an empirical concern of the salt we've been talking about,. but are there many substance Who is actually I'm not so sure charmers is not is not so unsympathetic to substance dualism actually.

The human brain contains roughly 85 billion neurons, wired together in an extraordinarily complex network of interconnected parts. It’s hardly surprising that we don’t understand the mind and how it works. But do we know enough about our experience of consciousness to suggest that consciousness cannot arise from nothing more than the physical interactions of bits of matter? Panpsychism is the idea that consciousness, or at least some mental aspect, is pervasive in the world, in atoms and rocks as well as in living creatures. Philosopher Philip Goff is one of the foremost modern advocates of this idea. We have a friendly and productive conversation, notwithstanding my own view that the laws of physics don’t need any augmenting to ultimately account for consciousness. If you’re not sympathetic toward panpsychism, this episode will at least help you understand why someone might be.

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Philip Goff received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Reading. He is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Durham. His new book, Galileo’s Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness, is being published on Nov. 5.

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