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Philip Goff on Galileo and Consciousness

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May 9, 2020
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Galileo's Qualities in Consciousness

  • Galileo proposed that qualities like color and taste are not in objects but in consciousness.
  • This distinction led to a world view separating quantitative physical matter from qualitative consciousness.
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Science's Limits on Consciousness

  • Contemporary science struggles to explain consciousness because it excludes qualities from physical descriptions.
  • Galileo's quantitative science was designed to exclude consciousness, making it unexplainable by standard physical science methods.
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Russell and Eddington's Panpsychism

  • Bertrand Russell and Arthur Eddington noted physical science describes matter's behavior, not its intrinsic nature.
  • Placing consciousness as the intrinsic nature of matter forms a scientific panpsychism uniting qualitative and quantitative aspects.
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