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51: On Consciousness | Annaka Harris

The After On Podcast

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Is There a Consciousness in Brains?

The author defends panpsychism as a legitimate category of theories about consciousness based on what we currently know. But he is not closed to the possibility that we might discover that consciousness does, in fact, exist only in brains. The book was inspired by his desire to help make this topic less taboo. And there are plenty of people who seem to be in your position of science we should take it seriously.

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