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

The Weekend University

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The Conscious Mind

A lot of these early quantum physicists, pioneers of quantum mechanics have some kind of pun-psychism or idealism. A lot of that's connected to whether consciousness collapses the wave function. I don't think that kind of view fits very well with pun-Psychism actually because if you want consciousness to collapse the wave function, you're going to have to have a more boring version of quantum mechanics. It's not obvious to me why we need to think that there's some ultimately one conscious mind underlying all things.

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