Philip Goff

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Eye On A.I. · How Modern Science Got Consciousness Wrong From the Start | Philip Goff · 29 Jun 2026 podcast

Mio, my no, I don't think con finally, I don't think consciousness is magical or supernatural.

So I think it's going to be possible in principle to have artificial consciousness, but I think we should be thinking of something in the first instance.

More like an artificial living system, right?

Maybe a a microbe, an artificial microbe in the first instance, and you know, building up to something with the complexity of a human being, but I don't think it's gonna look like a large language model.

I see.

Yeah, so you might think panpsychists are gonna think large language models are conscious because kind of everything's conscious.

Well, actually, panpsychists don't think literally everything is conscious, despite the etymology of the word, pan meaning everything, psyche meaning mind.

The claim is that the the fundamental building blocks of the universe, whether they're particles or whether they're fields.

They have rudimentary forms of consciousness.

But it doesn't follow that every random combination of particles have c has consciousness.

So a panpsychist isn't going to necessarily think, you know, this cup I'm holding is conscious.

They're just going to think maybe the fundamental particles making up that cup have some kind.

Of rudimentary consciousness, but the cup as a whole need not have its own sort of unified conscious experience.

So, and and as I say, this is so so the way I divide up the scientific and the philosophical task, I think this is fairly fairly common understanding, not something unique to me.

So it's the scientific task to work out which things are conscious, but then

It's a philosophical task.

To answer the why question, why?

Why is consciousness and physical reality

joined together correlated in in the way science reveals to us.

Um I don't think that is a scientific question.

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