How to Learn a New Language in 3 Weeks

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The best way to learn a new language is through immersion But that's not possible for everyone the second best way is babble because with babble you can start speaking a new language in just three weeks. Here's a special limited time deal for our listeners to get you started right now get 55% off your babble subscription for mindscape listeners at babble.com Dot-com-slash-mindscape rules and restrictions may apply So good. Let's I think we have interesting things to talk about so let's quickly dispatch What I think is the least interesting thing which is the idea of dualismright the old-fashioned Cartesian idea that there is a mind distinct from the body

The human brain contains roughly 85 billion neurons, wired together in an extraordinarily complex network of interconnected parts. It’s hardly surprising that we don’t understand the mind and how it works. But do we know enough about our experience of consciousness to suggest that consciousness cannot arise from nothing more than the physical interactions of bits of matter? Panpsychism is the idea that consciousness, or at least some mental aspect, is pervasive in the world, in atoms and rocks as well as in living creatures. Philosopher Philip Goff is one of the foremost modern advocates of this idea. We have a friendly and productive conversation, notwithstanding my own view that the laws of physics don’t need any augmenting to ultimately account for consciousness. If you’re not sympathetic toward panpsychism, this episode will at least help you understand why someone might be.

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Philip Goff received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Reading. He is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Durham. His new book, Galileo’s Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness, is being published on Nov. 5.

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