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

There's just simple forms of consciousness and everything

Else, not just our consciousness, but the entire physical universe, stars, planets, mass, spin, charge, particles, fields, everything emerges from those simple forms of consciousness.

That's a beautiful, simple, elegant theory of reality.

Um, so to sum it up, I think I guess there's

Three views on consciousness.

The one that's most popular, physicalism, is that we can somehow

Explain consciousness in terms of physical processes in the brain in the terms of f I actu I I think that doesn't make sense.

I think it's it's actually not a coherent view.

Uh it doesn't it hasn't properly understood the explanatory project of consciousness, where the problem of consciousness comes from.

So I just think it's incoherent.

We could talk more about that if you like.

Dualism is the second

option the consciousness is in the soul okay it's a possibility but it's a bit inelegant Occam's razor it offends against panpsychism is coherent simple elegant

So it's the most likely option.

It's on the basis of that that I think particles and fields are conscious.

whether anything else is conscious, which things are conscious, is I think a scientific question and it is um

It is as we've been discussing one that at the moment it's it's a little bit of a mess to know how to settle the ground rules are not not even in operation as yet.

Um I mean one theory I'm I'm kind of attracted to integrated information theory, one of the leading contenders of a scientific theory of consciousness, that um is another reason I guess

Panpsychism is getting taken more seriously because it's it's it's in something that's very close to panpsychism that at le it at least

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