Introduction

3min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

John Carroll: Today we're gonna go back into consciousness how the brain looks at the world and figures out what is where and how to respond to it. We have Philip Gough who's a professor of philosophy at Durham University in the UK and one of the leading thinkers on Panpsychism he is all for it. But basically Philip is also pro-Galeleo. He thinks that Galileo made a mistake in overly Mathematically the world that we live in That there's a qualitative aspect to the world as well as a quantitative aspect. If you want to support the podcast you can go to the web page preposterous universe calm slash podcast There you can find transcripts of every episodes and

The human brain contains roughly 85 billion neurons, wired together in an extraordinarily complex network of interconnected parts. It’s hardly surprising that we don’t understand the mind and how it works. But do we know enough about our experience of consciousness to suggest that consciousness cannot arise from nothing more than the physical interactions of bits of matter? Panpsychism is the idea that consciousness, or at least some mental aspect, is pervasive in the world, in atoms and rocks as well as in living creatures. Philosopher Philip Goff is one of the foremost modern advocates of this idea. We have a friendly and productive conversation, notwithstanding my own view that the laws of physics don’t need any augmenting to ultimately account for consciousness. If you’re not sympathetic toward panpsychism, this episode will at least help you understand why someone might be.

Support Mindscape on Patreon.

Philip Goff received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Reading. He is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Durham. His new book, Galileo’s Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness, is being published on Nov. 5.

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.