Meet The Most Persuasive Panpsychist Alive Today

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Buy AI-powered UPDF Editor 2.5 with exclusive discount: https://updf.com/updf-sales-promotion/?utm_source=youtube-thegiantsshoulder-2605-cathy&utm_medium=en&utm_campaign=cathy202605&packageKey=overseapromotion&sv1=affiliate&sv_campaign_id=2905493&sscid=33583_1779690645_251084a070c8c8f9b8ca60d829b2d201&awc=33583_1779690645_251084a070c8c8f9b8ca60d829b2d201 Want to go deeper on consciousness? Join our community where we run live discussions, inner experience challenges and early ad free access to every episode: https://www.skool.com/the-giants-shoulder-6526/about Philip Goff is a professor of philosophy at Durham University and author of Galileo's Error and Why? The Purpose of the Universe. Stephen Fry called him the most persuasive panpsychist alive. Physics tells us everything about what matter does — but nothing about what it actually is. Goff argues this isn't a gap we'll close — it's a permanent hole. And the best candidate to fill it is consciousness itself. Expect to learn why physics can only describe what stuff does and not what it is, how Evan's sister discovered at 31 she has zero mental imagery, why Bertrand Russell may have already solved consciousness a hundred years ago, what 5-MeO-DMT revealed to a philosopher about the nature of reality, the difference between weak and strong emergence and why it matters for AI, and much more… Timestamps: 00:00 Trailer 02:21 What Makes Consciousness Radically Different 05:24 Evan's Descriptive Experience Sampling Experiment 06:42 Discovering Aphantasia at 31 08:27 Change Blindness and the Invisible Gorilla 10:40 Mary's Room: What Red Looks Like 13:21 Why Consciousness Theories Ignore Subjective Experience 16:48 The Resurgence of Panpsychism 18:14 Bertrand Russell: The Darwin of Consciousness 20:13 Evan's Psychedelic Journey Toward Biopsychism 22:12 Taking 5-MeO-DMT as a Philosopher 24:38 Michael Pollan, Plants and Psychedelic Openness 28:45 Is Consciousness Computational or Biological? 30:43 The Combination Problem: How Tiny Minds Become One 37:17 Russell's Inversion: Start With Consciousness 40:21 The Hole in Physics: What Stuff Does vs What It IS 41:50 Why Bernardo Kastrup Gets Cross 44:41 Galileo's Error: The Decision That Broke Science 47:20 Aphantasia, Visual Decoding and the Consciousness Gap 49:50 Front Brain vs Back Brain: Where Is Consciousness? 52:40 Eric Schwitzgebel's Snail Problem 55:40 Philosopher-Scientist Teams: A New Model 1:03:01 Strong Emergence and New Causal Dynamics 1:04:47 Will We Fall in Love With Robots? 1:07:22 The Genome Didn't Solve Life 1:10:54 The $10 Billion Consciousness Experiment ... GS Episodes Mentioned Anil Seth — Consciousness, Controlled Hallucination, Perception: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOSA06K0l1o Philip Ball — Quantum Mechanics, Brain Organoids, How Life Works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNbG5lnp51E Kevin Mitchell — Free Will, Neuroplasticity, Strong Emergence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VGWzGqA32E Matthias Michel — Consciousness Philosophy, Aphantasia, Fish Consciousness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtVWgpVPr1s Russell Hurlburt — Inner Experience, Descriptive Experience Sampling: https://youtu.be/j0gKl-g3DNg Robert Prentner — Conscious Agent Theory, Mathematics of Experience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTKE8eLo8CU Charles Fernyhough — Inner Speech, Hearing Voices, Memory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJFY6dypPc4 ## Follow Philip - Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@UC-O_DvNMnNkUef_vdldAS4w - X/Twitter: @Philip_Goff - Bluesky: @[philipgoff.bsky.social](http://philipgoff.bsky.social/) - Substack: [philipgoff.substack.com](http://philipgoff.substack.com/) - Website: [philipgoffphilosophy.com](http://philipgoffphilosophy.com/) - Podcast: Mind Chat (co-hosted with Keith Frankish) Email for sponsorship enquiries: [evan@thegiantsshoulder.com](mailto: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