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What Is Consciousness? Philip Goff On The Nature of Reality & The Science of Mind
The Rich Roll Podcast
Is There a Scientific or Objective Evidence to Support Your Thesis?
I don't think you can scientifically prove the particles have consciousness because consciousness is not publicly observable. You can't look inside an election to see if it's conscious, just as I can’t look inside your brain to see if your consciousness is up. So we need to engage with a bit of philosophy. If you just zealously follow this line that, no, the only way we know anything is through experiments, then consciousness is out the window. We know about consciousness through our immediate awareness. How do we bring these things together? Now, that's not a scientific question you can answer in an experiment. It's a philosophical question. And so more and more before we get onto
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