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Panpsychism: Is Everything Conscious? - Dr Philip Goff, PhD

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The Eddy Panpsychist View of Consciousness

Eddy Panpsychist: Because particles are so stupid, they're inevitably going to do what they feel like. This is what gets us the standard predictions of quantum mechanics - called Born Rule Predictions. He says we need a theory of mental combination where particles are disposed in certain circumstances to combine into conscious systems. The Integrated Information Theory tells us that you get consciousness at the systems level when there's more integrated information in the whole system than in its parts.

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