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

I've just mentioned Matthias, Michelle, Tom McClelland, um are just saying it's uh Eric Schwitz Gable, uh an as a recent paper arguing in a similar direction.

different perspective but arguing to a similar point that it it it's just getting less obvious we can do this.

It's just it's just I'm not to and and Vic to be clear I'm not now talking about the stuff I deal with like you know why does consciousness exist?

Where does it come from?

I'm just talking about the science, like which things are conscious.

Is it computational?

Is it biological?

It's all a bit of

a mess.

So I've told you my hunch for like how we can make progress, but that's just me trying to tell people to do that and

Let me let me answer that in two parts.

Let me first say something about a different way of bringing consciousness and quantum mechanics together, namely um that initi initially proposed by Wigner in the 60s, the uh Nobel Prize winning quantum pioneer.

The idea that consciousness collapses the wave function, right?

So uh

Um I th I and and um David Chalmers and Kelvin McQueen have I mean this view hasn't been taken very seriously by physicists, but uh Chalmers and McQueen have recently um worked out a very detailed, rigorous analysis of of how this hypothesis might look and how it might be tested.

I think there from a certain

Philosophical perspective, at least, that there's a reason to take this seriously.

Here's how I think about quantum mechanics: there are all these different interpretations.

The simplest interpretation, actually, people might be surprised at this, is the many worlds interpretation, defended, for example, by Sean Carroll.

This idea that reality is continuously branching into different versions of itself.

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