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#261 – Philip Goff: Consciousness, Panpsychism, and the Philosophy of Mind
Lex Fridman Podcast
Reason Is the Slave of the Passions
The claim that humans have access to certain facts and are able to respond to them is controversial/nThe belief in whether or not animals have access to objective facts about what they have reason to do varies depending on one's view of value/nThe philosopher David Hume believed that reason is the slave of passions and that motivations are what drive reason/nThe speaker believes that there are objective facts about what humans have reason to do and we are able to access them/nNon-human animals do not have access to objective facts about what they have reason to do or believe/nThe speaker had a radical conversion unrelated to pun psych regarding David Hume's views on reason as the slave of the passions
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