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What Is Consciousness? Philip Goff On The Nature of Reality & The Science of Mind

The Rich Roll Podcast

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Are You Wrong?

I just think the world would be cooler if consciousness is the fundamental base layer of everything that exists whether you're a complex organism like a human being or inanimate objects. I really do have a deep thirst for the truth. We'll never know for sure, but to have our best guess. Consciousness is at the root of human identity. It's arguably the source of everything that matters,. from deep emotions, subtle thoughts, beautiful sensory experiences. And yeah, I'm inclined to think our official scientific worldview materialism is actually just inconsistent with the reality of consciousness. If it was true, there wouldn't be consciousness. The irony is physical science has been so successful because it's focused on

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