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Consciousness Is Immediate But Misplaced In Science
- Consciousness is immediate and undeniable but the mystery is how it fits into our scientific picture of reality.
- Philip Goff argues the problem is not what consciousness is but how it connects to physics.
Galileo's Move Shaped Modern Science
- Galileo deliberately excluded conscious qualities to make physics purely mathematical and predictive.
- Goff says that exclusion helped science but left consciousness outside scientific explanation.
Physics Describes Doing, Not Being
- Physics describes behavior and mathematical structure, not the intrinsic nature of entities.
- Goff: mass and charge tell us what things do, not what they are.