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, Maxwell introduced new uh electromagnetic um laws and properties, right?

He didn't work with the kind of laws that uh science was already committed to.

So my my my suggestion is when we identify conscious consciousness in the

the brain.

Uh we will see.

This is my speculation.

This is my, you know, this is not

something the philosophy can can establish.

This is my speculation.

I've got a philosophical argument connected to evolution to take this seriously, but it's it's ultimately an empirical prediction.

And that prediction is that when we identify consciousness in the brain, there will be

new causal dynamics that we would not have expected.

So not no, not telepathy, not, you know, not my brain moving objects in my room.

Just, ah, those those neurons are firing in a way we didn't expect.

I mean, if this sa i if i if this sounds a bit magical, I mean I I recently um

uh was PhD examiner for a wonderful thesis uh by a guy arguing, look, there there is no scientific evidence against dualism.

Dualism being, you know, belief that there's the mind is separate from the brain and they kind of interact and

Almost all scientists and philosophers think, oh, science has ruled that out.

Science has ruled that out.

But this was a very sophisticated PhD thesis that went into cutting-edge neuroscience, cutting edge physics, partly engaging with work Sean Carroll has done, responding to my work.

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