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

You know, now we what we do know a lot about is the basic chemistry, you know, how neurons fire action potentials, uh how

chemical messages are sent, and we know a fair bit about the function of big bits of the brain and the overall economy of of the brain.

What we know almost nothing about is how those large-scale functions are realized at the cellular level.

You know, how it works.

And so I think

really we need to get more of a grip on that to see if ah here's something different is happening.

Here's something different is happening that you

We would not have predicted from our our current known understanding of chemistry and uh physics.

Um I'm not talking about something magical.

I'm just talking about relative to the causal dynamics outside of consciousness.

If if there are sort of distinctive new causal dynamics that emerge, which I think there must be if there's

If there's a survival advantage to consciousness, I think there must be.

But if there are, if I'm right in that, then in principle we could track them.

So we can we can work not just with what we know about consciousness from

talking to a patient and scanning their brain, we can we can hold that in mind, but then we can also look for where there are new causal dynamics emerging.

Um as I say, no no one's doing this at the moment and and I'm not sure we are at a level of understanding of the workings of the brain to be able to start that research programme.

But yeah, I mean look m that that is my

Yeah.

No, no, I'm not talking about anything like that.

Um, I mean let's go back to Maxwell.

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