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Panpsychism: Is Everything Conscious? - Dr Philip Goff, PhD

The Weekend University

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The Effects of Natural Selection on Survival

Natural selection wants to create creatures that behave rationally, because that's they're going to survive well. An alternative for natural selection is just to try and get organisms with understanding experience,. With conscious understanding of what things are and mean. And I think that's likely to lead to a survival advantage.

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