Philip Goff

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549 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 29 Jun

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And um

I mean, and one way into this is I I I think the problem of consciousness was built into the the way we designed science, right?

By the the father of modern science, Galileo, right?

He was we he was a great experimental scientist, but he was also a great philosopher.

And it it was his philosophical innovations that really shaped the foundation.

Of the scientific revolution.

So so Galileo wanted science to be purely mathematical.

Uh something we take for granted these days, but at the time it was it was a radical innovation.

But Galileo had to do a little bit of philosophical work to make sense of that.

Because the trouble is I mean

One thing about consciousness, it's the only phenomenon that we have direct access to.

Right?

And that direct access

Reveals to us something about its nature, you know, the the redness of a red experience, the smell of coffee, the taste of mint.

Uh, we we have direct access to the the character of consciousness from the inside.

That's one one way which this is such a unique phenomenon.

But Galileo appreciated.

You can't capture these subjective qualities we directly encounter in our experience, the colours, the sounds, the smells, the tastes.

You can't fully capture those in the purely quantitative language of mathematics.

Okay?

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