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 mean, is it

Th there's a very easy way of solving this, which is just to add another primitive, as it were, just to say, oh look, it's just a f fundamental fact about our universe that when conscious particles combine in certain ways, they unify together to make new forms of complex consciousness.

Um so that's what w one approach panpsychus can have that just kind of removes the problem.

by just adding another primitive.

Other panpsychists try to tell a more reductionist story and say, no, no, you know, it's just when you get conscious particles in a certain way.

automatically a unified consciousness arises and then try and give some kind of explanatory story for that.

Now, whichever way you go on this, I think the important thing to realize is

You still retain the core explanatory attraction of panpsychism, which is that you explain physical reality in terms of just one kind of property, namely consciousness.

That's the aspiration of the panpsychist.

Maybe you want to talk a little bit more about that, maybe not.

But is to completely bottom out reality in one.

very simple kind of property.

Um so w whether we have to sort of

add something to get from simple forms of comp consciousness to more complex forms of consciousness, or whether we can tell a more reductious story, that's a further question.

But still panpsychism retains that that Occam's razor respectable characteristic of being able to bottom everything out in just one kind of property.

So I th I mean the way I think about the challenge of consciousness, I I I think there's a division of labor between the scientific task and the philosophical task.

So I think the scientific task is to work out which kinds of physical activity go along with consciousness.

And it's very hard because as we've discussed, we we know about consciousness primarily from the inside.

If you're looking from the outside, it's very it's very hard to tell if something's conscious.

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