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#261 – Philip Goff: Consciousness, Panpsychism, and the Philosophy of Mind
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is Consciousness Connected to Suffering?
The capacity to suffer is strongly correlated with the capacity to experience yeah I would say I would say suffering is a kind of experience and so you have to be conscious to suffer actually there's one people taking more unusual views of consciousness seriously now panpsychism is one. There are kinds of experiences animals have that we don't bats echo locate around the world the philosopher Thomas Nagel famously pointed out that no matter how much you understand of the neurophysiology of bats you'll still know what it's like to squeal and find your way around by listening to the echoes bounce off.
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