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

The Weekend University

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The Role of Understanding in Survival

"There's no mystery about why natural selection gives us, it gives us the behavioral notion of understanding," he says. "I think maybe you're just conflating these two things and not properly distinct." He adds that evolutionary explanation can explain understanding, but not conscious understanding.

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