
Breaking through the consciousness stalemate | Philip Goff
Philosophy For Our Times
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What Is Consciousness?
Thomas Nagel was the first to explicitly define consciousness using that phrase. Some philosophers, some panpsychists like Luke Roloff's think literally everything is conscious. I'm more inclined to think that the conditions under which simple conscious things combine together to make complex conscious things are quite rare and natural selection exploited it.
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