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Mark Gober | Consciousness First, Modern Amnesia, and An End To Upside Down Thinking

My Family Thinks I'm Crazy

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Is There a Consciousness?

There's an increasingly popular idea it's called panpsychism, meaning that each of the constituent pieces of matter has consciousness. The argument into philosophy is Occam's razor - we can start with consciousness and explain everything. We don't need to imply or suggest that there is this unknown quantity of matter and a universe that existed outside of and before consciousness. And so that's why I one of the reasons in addition to all the reality of paranormal phenomenon and quantum physics that I start with consciousness.

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