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

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Are We Going to Let Nobody in Our Club or Do We Want to Let Everyone In?

I want to create these kinds of systems but in a way that doesn't manipulate people I want it to be a thing that brings out the best in people without manipulation so it's always human-centric always human first. Part of me is concerned that these philosophical zombies will be able to implant themselves into our society and convince us like they can start manipulating you at first. If consciousness was associated with new causal dynamics in the brain that were not reducible to underlying chemistry and physics this is another ongoing debate about whether current physics should make us very confident that there aren't any strongly emergent causal dynamics.

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