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

The Weekend University

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The Different Kinds of Zombies

A zombie, a complicated mechanism without consciousness, would behave just the same as us by definition. Why have we evolved with consciousness? I don't think this is a challenge which bothers a panpsychist very much. And to introduce you to that slightly different kind of zombie, I want to make a distinction between Sensory consciousness and understanding experience.

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