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#27 Philip Goff - Is Everything Conscious?

Within Reason

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The Pros and Cons of Panpsychism

Panpsychism is an explanation that accounts for the physical world in terms of underlying facts about consciousness. Because physics is purely mathematical, I think we can account for physics in terms of beneath-the-surface facts about consciousness as long as they're doing the right stuff and realizing patterns and structures. There are important challenges to whether this explanation does work; but yeah, I would argue that it does work.

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