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

The Weekend University

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The Argument for Micro-Reductionism

Micro-reductionism is broadly believed, but I've had huge arguments on my podcast Mind Chat quick plug with the physicist Sean Carroll. The experiments on which we base physics like particle physics involve very small numbers of particles. We never tested a complex organism, it would be very hard to do to see whether those laws of physics are exactly the same in a complex organism. So I don't think we have very strong empirical reason at all to go for micro-red reductionism.

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