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

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Is Consciousness Doing a Lot of Work?

In your view consciousness is not emergent and more than that it's doing quite a lot. It feels like consciousness has a lot of value in how we develop our society so without it you may not have a human civilization at all. My consciousness is complicated and fairly complicated and I as a result it does complicated things the consciousness of a particle is very simple and hence it behaves in predictable ways.

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