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

The Weekend University

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The Importance of Understanding Experience

A rabbit has some understanding of what's going on around it, but a meaning zombie is undefining them. It's just meaningless. So this very important characteristic of human existence, understanding experience, if we can't give an evolutionary account of how it came to be, that's pretty worrying. I mean, it's quite incredible the kind of technology we're having with these now and actually sheds new insights on these very questions. But yeah, maybe I'll just get through this argument so we can have it, have it plenty of time for Q&A.

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