Matt Segall: Panexperientialism, God, Metaphysics and What Neuroscience Is Getting Wrong!

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Get A Full Breakdown Of Your Own Conscious Inner Experience (100% Free): https://www.skool.com/the-giants-shoulder-6526/about Matt Segall is a process philosopher, Associate Professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, and author of Physics of the World-Soul and Crossing the Threshold — two books arguing that consciousness isn't produced by the brain but is woven into the fabric of reality itself. Expect to learn why there is no scientific evidence that consciousness exists, how one French philosopher broke Western science in 1637 and we still haven't fixed it, why the brain is a condition for consciousness but not the producer of it, what panpsychism actually claims and why it's making a serious comeback, why the hard problem of consciousness and the origin of life might be the same problem, what it might feel like to be water or a photon, how psychedelics reveal something philosophy has been saying for centuries, and much more… Timestamps: 00:00 The Nature of Consciousness 02:52 Evidence and Experience 06:09 Consciousness and the Brain 09:09 Emergence vs. Production of Consciousness 12:11 Panpsychism and Process Philosophy 15:08 Information and Consciousness 17:47 Biopsychism and Early Consciousness 21:11 The Hard Problem of Consciousness 24:08 Subjectivity and Objectivity 27:06 The Role of Information in Reality 29:47 Consciousness and the Universe 48:25 The Relational Nature of Truth 51:10 Beyond Space and Time 54:55 The Self in a Panpsychist View 56:30 The Evidence for Panpsychism 01:00:01 Sociological Influences on Worldviews 01:03:34 Psychedelics and Consciousness 01:10:56 Navigating Reality and Hallucination 01:15:13 Falsification and Progress in Panpsychism 01:19:57 The Ethical Implications of Panpsychism ... Email for sponsorship enquiries: evan@thegiantsshoulder.com ❤️ Subscribe to our main channel - https://www.youtube.com/@thegiantsshoulder?sub_confirmation=1 💚 Follow on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/5m3Gta5MtIYdk59pb2GJ7M?si=Ka2rAQv7TyqiC9wvGwERpA 💜 Follow on Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/the-giants-shoulder/id1752486249 Download my FREE EBook 26 Neuroscience Books for 2026 HERE: https://thegiantsshoulder.com/