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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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Is There a God Number in the Universe?

I consider a lot of different so some people would say oh that's God mm-hmm but I don't like that hypothesis for a familiar reason. What I'm rejecting is the very traditional western idea of God as philosophers call it the omni-god you know omnipotent all omniscient omni-benevolent i.e. all knowing all powerful perfectly good. There's also data that the traditional meaningless universe picture can't handle right namely the fine-tuning and sort certain other philosophical considerations. Maybe there's just a law of nature that has to kind of fit in with the standard laws of physics but which is in some way inclining the universe towards life or maybe

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