Alex O'Connor
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first heard Sep 2025
last heard 25 May
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Science uses the language of mathematics.
It's like quantifying.
Consciousness is a quality.
It's qualitative.
It's not the kind of thing that science can talk about.
I did a panel not long ago that was hosted by Brian Cox.
It was with some neuroscientists, one of whom was Anil Seth, a good friend of mine, and the other two whose names I've forgotten.
I'd only met them that one time.
And they invited me because there was a show called A Question of Science, and they did all of these episodes on different scientific topics, and they did one on consciousness.
And I think they wanted somebody...
who like wasn't, I guess, like a neuroscientist.
They wanted like a philosophical perspective.
And I remember thinking, okay, sure, I'll do this.
I'm very grateful to be here if you really think that I'm an appropriate person.
And I thought, well, what I can do is I can come along and I can talk about some philosophical perspectives.
I can talk about panpsychism.
I can talk about other traditions and stuff.
And I remember before we started,
Brian sort of looked at the questions that had been submitted by the audience and was kind of wanting to get rid of some of them because he was like, well, you know, like this stuff about like panpsychism and whatnot.
I don't think we should really be spending any time on this kind of nonsense.
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