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What Is Consciousness? Philip Goff On The Nature of Reality & The Science of Mind
The Rich Roll Podcast
The Materialist Explanatory Project
The traditional modality for understanding consciousness has more to do with consciousness arising out of matter. The panpsychists would say that matter arises out of consciousness, which is a way of saying that consciousness is fundamental to reality and to matter itself. We have this essentially philosophical choice that we have to confront. It's not a scientific choice that you can settle with an experiment. But here I think Bertrand Russell should be seen as the Darwin of consciousness. In the 1920s he essentially worked out how we could account for physical reality in terms of underlying facts about mind and consciousness.
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