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What Is Consciousness? Philip Goff On The Nature of Reality & The Science of Mind
The Rich Roll Podcast
Is There Anything Beyond Our Capacity?
I think we operate with this sensibility that there is nothing beyond our grasp in terms of understanding it's just a matter of time before we figure it all out but I think that that is qualitatively incorrect. While we've got explanations that as far as we can see would do the job then I think the rational thing to do is to take those explanations seriously. The reason people feel nervous with fine tuning is not because we can't think of an explanation it's because the explanations don't fit with how we've got used to science, he says. You know you start talking about cosmic gold erectedness with philosophers or scientists they're going to start laughing at you said Professor Hawking.
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