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

The Weekend University

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The Importance of Consciousness in Physical Science

Galileo essentially gave physical science, what he called natural philosophy, a quite focused specific task. He says, just forget about consciousness with these kind of weird qualities. Put that on one side, just focus on what you can capture mathematically. But the fact that it's gone well since we took consciousness out of the picture doesn't mean it's going to go well once we bring consciousness back in.

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