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

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Panpsychism Is Not Necessarily Connected to Anything Spiritual

Panpsychism is not necessarily connected to anything spiritual. If for independent reasons you are motivated to some spiritual picture of reality then maybe a panpsychist view is more consonant with that. In many different cultures experience meditators have claimed to have experiences in which there is an element of consciousness that is universal so this is sometimes called universal consciousness. On this view your mind and my mind are not totally distinct each of our individual conscious minds is built upon the foundations of universal consciousness.

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