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

So Galileo, in a way, instead of confronting that, he thought, let's just put it on one side.

If we just put consciousness on one side, we can stop worrying about it, we can get on with mathematical physics.

I think that was a good move because it allowed mathematical physics to start, and that's obviously gone very well.

But if we want to bring consciousness into the scientific story, we need to somehow take

what we know about the physical world from experiments

Obviously absolutely crucial, but also what we know about consciousness from the inside.

These two sources of information, we need to bring them together.

And until we get, you know, at first base in in understanding what a unique explanatory enterprise this is, we're not gonna make progress on consciousness.

But um, I think I wandered off your that was I just focused on the first bit of your question.

What was the second bit of your question?

Yeah, panpsychists definitely take it to be fundamental.

And, you know, there is precedent in science.

A lot of precedent for taking something as fundamental.

I like to give the example of um Maxwell with his theory of electromagnetism in the nineteenth century.

Maxwell didn't explain electricity and magnetism in terms of um features of reality that science was already committed to.

He added new fundamental electromagnetic properties and laws and then built up from that basis.

So similarly, panpsychists add consciousness as a fundamental feature of the universe.

Obviously, in very rudimentary forms at the fundamental level.

And then the view is that our consciousness, the very complex consciousness of the human or animal brains, is somehow built up from those more fundamental elements.

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