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#261 – Philip Goff: Consciousness, Panpsychism, and the Philosophy of Mind
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Physics of Consciousness
I think we've got to realize dealing with consciousness is a radically different explanatory task from other tasks of science. In the case of consciousness we're trying to explain these invisible subjective qualities that you can't see from the outside but that you're immediately aware of. I mean still ultimately the hope is that we will have some kind of hierarchical story so we take the causal dynamics of physics we hypothesize that that's filled out with certain forms of consciousness and then at higher levels we get more complex causal dynamics filled out by more complex forms of consciousness and ultimately we get to us hopefully.
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