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What Is Consciousness? Philip Goff On The Nature of Reality & The Science of Mind
The Rich Roll Podcast
The Mysticism of the Mystic
In panpsychism there's a picture of the universe we fit into much more. We're not making conscious decisions they're just operating under some kind of instinctual impulse that perhaps has something to do with the consciousness that pervades everything. I always come back to the response of William James in his great book in the 19th century the varieties of religious experience when you say well why should why should the mystic trust their experience trust that it's telling them something about ultimate reality he says well you can't know but it's same with ordinary sensory experiences right.
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