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

We're gonna turn it upside down.

We're gonna start with consciousness and account for everything else.

Account for physics, chemistry, neuroscience in terms of consciousness.

And I think that way of doing it makes a lot more sense and is proved more productive, I think.

So panpsychists hold that the fundamental physical entities have consciousness of some incredibly rudimentary form.

But it's a question for physicists what the fundamental physical entities are.

We tend to think of them as particles, electrons, or quarks.

But actually, many theoretical physicists these days are inclined to think actually reality isn't made up of

Particles, it's made up of universe-wide fields, and particles are just sort of local excitations in those fields.

So if you combine that kind of view with panpsychism, we reach the view known as cosmosychism that the fundamental conscious mind is the universe itself.

So we shouldn't think of that as you know, God or something or

Or you know, just because something has consciousness, it doesn't mean it has intelligence, agency, uh, understanding.

These are the very complex forms of consciousness that arise from millions of years of evolution.

So if the universe is conscious, presumably it's going to have very, very complicated consciousness, just because the universe is physically very complicated, but it doesn't mean it's

Going to have intellectually sophisticated consciousness.

It just be could be just a kind of meaningless mess or something.

Um, but yes, I think you were asking a question about what the combination problem, which I guess has become known as the the central challenge to panpsychism.

Okay, you're you're postulating these simple forms of consciousness, but how do you get our consciousness out?

Out of that.

Well, you know, I mean, so there are there are again a couple of approaches here.

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