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

An equation can't capture that deep red you experience as you watch the setting sun.

I mean, there are there are all sorts of things

We can capture about the structure of say color experience in mathematical language.

But, you know, to make the to make the example vivid, suppose you we have a blind from birth neuroscientist, right?

You can s you can tell them anything you like, framed in the language of mathematics about the objective brain processes involved in colour experience.

That will never convey to them the redness of a red experience, what it's like to see red.

So there's information here, information about the nature of consciousness that we have from the inside that you can't fully capture in a mathematical, purely quantitative language.

So, what did Galileo do?

Well, he took consciousness outside of

The domain of science, right?

He said if we if we want this purely mathematical story, this purely quantitative story.

We need to take consciousness out of the picture.

So he he ki basically divided nature into two.

On the one hand, we've got the the domain of science with its purely mathematical quantitative story.

On the other side, we've got consciousness that's in the soul, that's got these funny qualities, colours, sounds, smells, tastes.

And that was the start of mathematical physics, which has gone incredibly well.

Uh, but what we've forgotten is that success was premised on dividing reality into two.

And I think if we now want to fully bring consciousness into the scientific story, we need to find a way of bringing together what Galileo separated, joining them back together.

And I think panpsychism offers the best way to do that.

Yeah, just on on your first point, of course Galileo had some deep difficulties with the church over his Copernican view that the sun was in the center of it all rather than the earth.

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