The Newman's Problem

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I think maybe we've been talking slightly across purposes because that argument is more an attack on people who want to take Causation as a fundamental feature and we define the nature of saying electron in terms of what it does Yeah, I think that problem goes away a little bit if you just think. There has been a reply to there was a volume of essays on on this this form of panpsychism And Alyssa nay Who's a philosopher good philosopher of physics is replying Exactly these ways arguing that? That You know, we could just have the wave function or something in the expressed in completely mathematical language Just parenthetically, I am the author of an idea called mad dog ever

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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