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EP 154 Iain McGilchrist on The Matter With Things

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The One Thing We Cannot Say We Don't Know Is Consciousness

I believe in panpsychism. It's now hit the main stream of anglo american analytic philosophy. I don't think it's dull and pedestrian in the way that you sort of implied. The one thing we cannot say we don't know is consciousness, because we each have direct experience of it. We couldn't even talk about it or deny it without consciousness. So that is, that's clear on the alen vital. And i certainly wouldn't back the idea that some little tincture is added in to make life. But then i don't think thatthe s are hard and fast difference between animacy and inanimacy.

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