
Philip Goff (Consciousness)
Templeton Ideas Podcast
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The Importance of Consciousness
When you were growing up, would you have characterized yourself as a materialist? I thought that was the scientifically credible view. And that was the view I held for a couple of years when I studied philosophy. But then gradually became persuaded by philosophical arguments that we can't fully account for conscious experience in the terms of physical science. Out of these two seemingly very different things fit together in a single unified theory of reality.
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