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What Is Consciousness? Philip Goff On The Nature of Reality & The Science of Mind

The Rich Roll Podcast

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The Mind-Body Problem

This is an old problem going back a few centuries. It's what's traditionally be known as the mind-body problem. And I think the problem arises because we have two very different ways of accessing reality. Through perception, we access the physical world around us via our senses. And through introspection, we access consciousness via our immediate awareness of our own feelings and experiences. So it's almost like we've taken this ancient philosophical problem,. labeled it science, and then we find science can't answer it.

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