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

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Problems of Materialism and Dualism

"I've actually changed my mind a little bit on this since I wrote the book so I mean I argued in the book that we have pretty good experimental grounds for doubting dualism" "The more I talk to neuroscientists and read neuroscience and we have a Durham university and interdisciplinary consciousness group I think we know enough about the brain about the workings of the brain to make that argument" 'We're almost clueless on is how those large-scale functions are realized at the cellular level how it works people get quite excited about brain scans but it's very low resolution you know every pixel on a brain scan corresponds to 5.5 million neurons'

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