Breaking through the consciousness stalemate | Philip Goff
Philosophy For Our Times
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Panpsychism: An Alternative to Placing Consciousness Within Nature
In our standard way of thinking about these things, consciousness exists only in the brains of highly evolved organisms. But according to panpsychism, consciousness pervades the universe and is a fundamental feature of it. So I guess in a way you can see it as an alternative research program. We've been trying for many decades now to explain consciousness in terms of utterly non-conscious processes in the brain and got precisely nowhere," he says.
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