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#261 – Philip Goff: Consciousness, Panpsychism, and the Philosophy of Mind

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What's Unique About Human Beings?

consciousness is just something I mean it's a very ambiguous word but if we're just using it to mean some kind of experience some kind of inner life that is pretty widespread in the animal kingdom. Descartes thought animals were mechanisms and humans areunique so animals are robots essentially in the formulation of the cart and humans are unique. There's nothing that special about human consciousness it's just a highly evolved form of what exists throughout the universe.

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