How Panpsychism Explains Consciousness | Phillip Goff

Philip Goff argues for panpyschism as a solution to the problems of materialism and dualism.

Could all matter in the universe be conscious? Professor of Philosophy Philip Goff argues that panpyschism is real and solves the deep problems of materialism and dualism that have plagued philosophy for centuries.

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Philip Goff is a philosopher and consciousness researcher at Durham University, who is a leading defender of panpsychism. ‘Suddenly the universe appears in a new and much more revealing perspective." Phillip Pullman

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[ciao-cjin]

"If a tree falls in a forest and there's no one there to hear it, does it make a sound?" No, but a wave is still there. A sound is what your brain makes out of it - your subjective interpretation of that wave. If I put a tomato in the fridge is it still red? The world of experience that is in our heads is different from the actual objective reality that isn't. We live in the world of experience whilst stuck in true objective reality that we can never truly experience.

[bretnetherton]

Awareness is known by awareness alone.

[sgt]

For anyone new to this topic, when we claim that the lone tree falling in the woods does not make a sound, we are not claiming it does not emit sound waves that have the potential to create a noise within the consciousness of a potential hearer.

[kokolanza]

By the way, how *does* panpsychism explain consciousness? Did I miss that part?

[Lmaoh]

This video had everything to do with consciousness and nothing to do with Panpsychism

[don-tay]

I watched this video earlier and this man said that the universe was consciousness its self and us humans were gifted with the capability to experience this level of consciousness. He said consciousness exist everywhere around the universe, so say u flew out of the universe somehow, and consciousness didn’t exist out of it, you would lose your perception of reality, either be turned to ai, just a animalistic human with no ego or u would disappear, ion fuckin know. but compare us to every other being on this planet, notice how we are at top of the food chain, were smarter, more conscious, we know how to perceive our world more, etc. He said that animals have conscious and that they are sentient(can feel ), but not to a degree we are. cool lil theory but who knows

[jeremyfirth]

To me this appears to be a problem of recursion. Using consciousness to study consciousness causes the topic to unravel in your hands.

[InspirebyKhan]

This dude babbled for 3 hours on Rogan lmao

[RTew]

Suspicions confirmed: I 've been thinking for a while that my cellphone is conscious, and it's not even the most advanced one.

[logical-machine]

3:35 "but what we've forgotten I think is that it was never intended that physics should be a complete description of reality the whole project was premised on putting consciousness outside of the domain of science"

No. Consciousness is still part of science/physics. It's just not what your intuition tells you it is. You're the one that's defining consciousness as something outside the domain of science. That's an assumption YOU are making, not science. Perhaps you should put less stock on what your intuitions tell you consciousness is and just stick with science. Functionalism explains consciousness just fine. The only problem you have with it is that it's not what you feel consciousness should be. So you come up with panpsychism to appeal to your intuitions, which doesn't actually explain consciousness, and creates a bunch of problems in the process. Get some humility and acknowledge that your intuitions can be wrong.

6:30 "consciousness is not publicly observable"

Consciousness is publicly observable. You actually mean it's not publicly experienceable. Consciousness IS the functional processes of the brain. You can look at someone else's brain, but your brain is not doing what that brain is doing. So you won't experience the same thing. If your brain did the same thing the other brain did, you would experience the same thing. This makes perfect sense.

We have an answer to the philosophical question of what consciousness is. But we have yet to completely answer the scientific question of how the brain works. The brain is such an amazing thing that it feels like it has to be magic, but I assure you it's not.

[Dharma]

Consiousness is observer not experience. Experience is knowledge between observer and observed.

[ALavin-enkr]

Panpsychism does not explain consciousness it just banishes it to the earth making it earthly and the companion of nymphs like the mythological god Pan. We would expect more of consciousness, , something that would free us from the earth not banish us into it. Let consciousness remain the hard problem, let us give it that respect, until we know better.

[SquidDesign]

I'm trying to stare at my own eyeball.

[TheAtheist]

It is a Scientific problem because....we all identify the quality of colour wave lengths, same goes for sounds etc. So there are things that are objective about consciousness. Which must be then related to the fact that we have brains.

[HazYyy]

Oh god, another case of Are the carnists okay? Of course, rabbits know their existence 🤦🏼

[wabisabi]

This is a tired and disingenuous argument given by people with absolutely no understanding of neuroscience

[aryanknowledgeseeker]

As far as known and understandble the universe constructed a being as humans that is the pinnacle and masterpiece that has been constructed over billions of years. The mention fact constitutes that we define the truth by facts and observations.

If we analyze the pinnacle of the universe it has to be said that these species developed a need for knowing from an intrinsic curiosity. We abserve a less developed curiosity in lower stages of the animal kingdom. If the modern explanatory of evolution is right and if man is the pinnacle of the known universe and if consciousness is an undeniable phenomenon then we must agree that consciousness is not only the aim of the universe but its also the motive and at the sametime the instrument by wich it crawled from the depths to to surface.

To comprehend this view in a small frame all we need is to imagine a small particle that travels trough the universe and eventually bind’s by physical law until it becomes a part of living three that gives life to other combined matter.
This particle is the building block that forms the tree fruit and and later being obsorbed by the human and becomes the light that we call consciousness. The question are 2 namely.
Is matter part of consciousness?
Is consciousness the law that governs the universe?
My answer is that both are one and the samething. There is now law without matter and a dead matter has no properties.
From this point of view we can suggest that consciousness is one but has degrees that flows from the tiny particle to this article that you are reading. The only barrier is limitation to grasp to fullness of that one consciousness. I call this the Alpha-conscious. We only comprehend a portion of that fullness wich is restricted by the evolution of our kind.
One may use a subjective example by using the psychosocial domain to pointing out the adult that became an Infant by an disability has no value in the relm of consciousness becaus the infant has is happy as it should be.
Objectivly the motive and the aim of the Alpha-conscious is to be known by itself if we observe and consider the humane as pinnacle. Hereby is the evolutionary chain reversed and reduced in a descending degree from adult to infant. Thats a degradation and therefor bad .. as einschtein said in his kast words in his biography God is great -Allahu Akbar

[stoicsveganage]

Disappointing that to learn you are non vegan

[scalperbot]

This video is not complete and does not even mention panpsychism. Thumbs down.