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What Is Consciousness? Philip Goff On The Nature of Reality & The Science of Mind
The Rich Roll Podcast
Are You a Materialist or a Dewlist?
When I studied philosophy in the dying embers of the 20th century, we were just given these two options. Are you a materialist? Explain it in terms of physical processes in the brain or are you a dewlist? And I wanted to defend the materialist option. But then I slowly came to think for some of the reasons we've just been talking about that you just can't explain consciousness in these terms. So I decided I was going to deny the reality of my own conscious experience. This was become known as the illusionist position defended by his co-host on Mind Chat Keith Frankish. He says: "It's hard to make sense of what an illusion would
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