Phillip Goff

Similarly, I think for panpsychists, In an analogous sense, our consciousness isn't the blueprint, isn't the model of all consciousness, right? We're not saying if a rock is conscious, it's sort of feeling existential angst or, you know, wondering if it's Tuesday. For a panpsychist, our consciousness is very weird, cosmically speaking, right?

Similarly, I think for panpsychists, In an analogous sense, our consciousness isn't the blueprint, isn't the model of all consciousness, right? We're not saying if a rock is conscious, it's sort of feeling existential angst or, you know, wondering if it's Tuesday. For a panpsychist, our consciousness is very weird, cosmically speaking, right?

It's this really highly evolved form, been moulded by natural selection in this very peculiar, very specific... survival situation. Whereas our consciousness is really just a very highly evolved form of what exists throughout the universe. So we really need to sort of

It's this really highly evolved form, been moulded by natural selection in this very peculiar, very specific... survival situation. Whereas our consciousness is really just a very highly evolved form of what exists throughout the universe. So we really need to sort of

It's this really highly evolved form, been moulded by natural selection in this very peculiar, very specific... survival situation. Whereas our consciousness is really just a very highly evolved form of what exists throughout the universe. So we really need to sort of

don't anthropomorphize our consciousness onto the consciousness of particles or something it's going to be a very different kind of subjective experience but yeah does reality have an ethical structure again like would there be could there be something as objectively right or wrong or preferred in terms of our relation to other life in conscious forms you know is that possible even

don't anthropomorphize our consciousness onto the consciousness of particles or something it's going to be a very different kind of subjective experience but yeah does reality have an ethical structure again like would there be could there be something as objectively right or wrong or preferred in terms of our relation to other life in conscious forms you know is that possible even

don't anthropomorphize our consciousness onto the consciousness of particles or something it's going to be a very different kind of subjective experience but yeah does reality have an ethical structure again like would there be could there be something as objectively right or wrong or preferred in terms of our relation to other life in conscious forms you know is that possible even

Yeah, there does seem to be the hope of grounding morality in reality in some way does look more promising on a panpsychist view of things. Because, I mean, I think it's fundamentally value does arise from consciousness, right? There's no consciousness in the world... Things don't really matter if something doesn't have consciousness.

Yeah, there does seem to be the hope of grounding morality in reality in some way does look more promising on a panpsychist view of things. Because, I mean, I think it's fundamentally value does arise from consciousness, right? There's no consciousness in the world... Things don't really matter if something doesn't have consciousness.

Yeah, there does seem to be the hope of grounding morality in reality in some way does look more promising on a panpsychist view of things. Because, I mean, I think it's fundamentally value does arise from consciousness, right? There's no consciousness in the world... Things don't really matter if something doesn't have consciousness.

Okay, it might be majestic and wonderful, but if there's nothing there to experience that, then... doesn't really matter, does it? I think it's when we get experience, when we get pleasure pain, when we get conscious understanding, that is when real value emerges.

Okay, it might be majestic and wonderful, but if there's nothing there to experience that, then... doesn't really matter, does it? I think it's when we get experience, when we get pleasure pain, when we get conscious understanding, that is when real value emerges.

Okay, it might be majestic and wonderful, but if there's nothing there to experience that, then... doesn't really matter, does it? I think it's when we get experience, when we get pleasure pain, when we get conscious understanding, that is when real value emerges.

So I think it is a more promising story for some kind of objective story of ethics that's not rooted in something supernatural, a kind of old guy in the sky commanding you what's right and wrong, but is nonetheless objective and flows out of the ultimate nature of reality.

So I think it is a more promising story for some kind of objective story of ethics that's not rooted in something supernatural, a kind of old guy in the sky commanding you what's right and wrong, but is nonetheless objective and flows out of the ultimate nature of reality.

So I think it is a more promising story for some kind of objective story of ethics that's not rooted in something supernatural, a kind of old guy in the sky commanding you what's right and wrong, but is nonetheless objective and flows out of the ultimate nature of reality.

And I mean, something I've talked about a lot in my recent work, in my book modestly titled Why the Purpose of the Universe, one bit of the scientific story of recent times that I can't stop thinking about, for better or worse, is the fine-tuning of physics for life. This surprising discovery of recent decades that certain numbers in physics are against improbable odds just right for life.

And I mean, something I've talked about a lot in my recent work, in my book modestly titled Why the Purpose of the Universe, one bit of the scientific story of recent times that I can't stop thinking about, for better or worse, is the fine-tuning of physics for life. This surprising discovery of recent decades that certain numbers in physics are against improbable odds just right for life.

And I mean, something I've talked about a lot in my recent work, in my book modestly titled Why the Purpose of the Universe, one bit of the scientific story of recent times that I can't stop thinking about, for better or worse, is the fine-tuning of physics for life. This surprising discovery of recent decades that certain numbers in physics are against improbable odds just right for life.