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#261 – Philip Goff: Consciousness, Panpsychism, and the Philosophy of Mind
Lex Fridman Podcast
What Is Panpsychism?
The attraction of panpsychism is it's kind of a middle way. It agrees with the materialist that there's just a physical world ultimately there's just particles and fields but the pan panpsychist there's more to the physical than what physical science reveals. The ultimate nature of the physical world is constituted of consciousness so consciousness is not outside of the physical as the dualist thinks it's embedded in underlies the kind of description of the world we get from our brains. I became very disillusioned because I think there are big problems there's options, he says.
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