The Positive Case for Panpsychism

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I think there are two reasons why we need intrinsic natures one I'm not sure it's intelligible to have a picture of the world without them forget about consciousness. The other is There is this reality we know about and It's hard and it's hard to see how you can account for it in Causal structural terms But that's a that's in a way that there's two steps to that argument right? So so maybe maybe we could get into our good. Tell me tell us why okay Let's get into that argument, but I think I've just clarified myself what's going on. You seem to be saying that the I believe in intrinsic natures because I think consciousness is

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.

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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.

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