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

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The Philosophy of Consciousness

Because consciousness is not publicly observable, we can't just answer that question with an experiment. So sadly, we have to do some philosophy. Just look at the different proposals philosophers have offered for explaining this fact. I think as a society, we've sort of forgotten what philosophy is and the point of it. But so long as we accept that consciousness is not a publicly observable data, then I think it follows logically that this is not a purely scientific question.

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