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#261 – Philip Goff: Consciousness, Panpsychism, and the Philosophy of Mind

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You Know I Love Interviewing Scientists and Philosophers of Consciousness

Keith Frankish and I do of from polar opposite views really trying to understand each other. We both think you can't fully account for consciousness at least as philosophers normally think of it in conventional scientific terms so we said that starting point but we react to it in very different ways. He says well it doesn't exist then it's like furry dust it's you know witches you know we don't believe in anymore whereas I say it does exist so we have to rethink fundamental rethink what science is. Sean Carroll thinks the fact that I think zombies are logically coherent shows our own my view consciousness doesn't do anything it doesn't add anything crazy.

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