Phillip Goff

I mean, actually, I remember one of my first philosophical experiences, if you could put it that way, doing philosophy at high school and learning one of the big problems with this view of this anti-metaphysics view of the Vienna Circle was that it's kind of self-defeating because they have this principle that

I mean, actually, I remember one of my first philosophical experiences, if you could put it that way, doing philosophy at high school and learning one of the big problems with this view of this anti-metaphysics view of the Vienna Circle was that it's kind of self-defeating because they have this principle that

I mean, actually, I remember one of my first philosophical experiences, if you could put it that way, doing philosophy at high school and learning one of the big problems with this view of this anti-metaphysics view of the Vienna Circle was that it's kind of self-defeating because they have this principle that

the verification principle that any statement that can't be experimentally verified is meaningless. But what about that statement itself? What about the verification principle? It looks like, what's the experiment you do to verify that? And so it sort of pulls the bridge from under itself. And, you know, that I always just remember just being, wow. And seeing...

the verification principle that any statement that can't be experimentally verified is meaningless. But what about that statement itself? What about the verification principle? It looks like, what's the experiment you do to verify that? And so it sort of pulls the bridge from under itself. And, you know, that I always just remember just being, wow. And seeing...

the verification principle that any statement that can't be experimentally verified is meaningless. But what about that statement itself? What about the verification principle? It looks like, what's the experiment you do to verify that? And so it sort of pulls the bridge from under itself. And, you know, that I always just remember just being, wow. And seeing...

How careful thought can reveal the incoherence in a project people had been occupied with for 10 or 20 years. So, yeah, I mean, in the present day, unfortunately, some people... didn't get the memo that logical positivism didn't work out. But I think we now know we need to be doing both the science and the philosophy. But yeah, in terms of connecting to reality, I'm very good friends with Don.

How careful thought can reveal the incoherence in a project people had been occupied with for 10 or 20 years. So, yeah, I mean, in the present day, unfortunately, some people... didn't get the memo that logical positivism didn't work out. But I think we now know we need to be doing both the science and the philosophy. But yeah, in terms of connecting to reality, I'm very good friends with Don.

How careful thought can reveal the incoherence in a project people had been occupied with for 10 or 20 years. So, yeah, I mean, in the present day, unfortunately, some people... didn't get the memo that logical positivism didn't work out. But I think we now know we need to be doing both the science and the philosophy. But yeah, in terms of connecting to reality, I'm very good friends with Don.

I really like what he's doing. I suppose I have some small disagreement with him in his evolutionary-based arguments that the world as it's revealed through our senses is so radically deceptive. And my worry there is it's based in the viewpoint that we evolved. And as Don puts it, our senses evolve for survival rather than for getting at the truth. And that is the foundation of his argument.

I really like what he's doing. I suppose I have some small disagreement with him in his evolutionary-based arguments that the world as it's revealed through our senses is so radically deceptive. And my worry there is it's based in the viewpoint that we evolved. And as Don puts it, our senses evolve for survival rather than for getting at the truth. And that is the foundation of his argument.

I really like what he's doing. I suppose I have some small disagreement with him in his evolutionary-based arguments that the world as it's revealed through our senses is so radically deceptive. And my worry there is it's based in the viewpoint that we evolved. And as Don puts it, our senses evolve for survival rather than for getting at the truth. And that is the foundation of his argument.

But I suppose my question on that basis is, well, how do we know we evolved? we know we evolved through using our senses, right? Going out fighting fossils. And so if we're not careful, I do worry Don's argument will undermine its own base. If our senses are so radically deceptive, then we're going to lose our ability to justify the fact that we evolved, which is foundational to his argument.

But I suppose my question on that basis is, well, how do we know we evolved? we know we evolved through using our senses, right? Going out fighting fossils. And so if we're not careful, I do worry Don's argument will undermine its own base. If our senses are so radically deceptive, then we're going to lose our ability to justify the fact that we evolved, which is foundational to his argument.

But I suppose my question on that basis is, well, how do we know we evolved? we know we evolved through using our senses, right? Going out fighting fossils. And so if we're not careful, I do worry Don's argument will undermine its own base. If our senses are so radically deceptive, then we're going to lose our ability to justify the fact that we evolved, which is foundational to his argument.

So yes, I wouldn't go quite as far as Dom, but certainly coming back to Galileo, so much of how we see the world, the colours, the sounds, the smells that seem to fill the air, I don't think that's really out there. That is part of the way we've evolved to survive and interact with the world. And, you know, one of the big questions we're facing is,

So yes, I wouldn't go quite as far as Dom, but certainly coming back to Galileo, so much of how we see the world, the colours, the sounds, the smells that seem to fill the air, I don't think that's really out there. That is part of the way we've evolved to survive and interact with the world. And, you know, one of the big questions we're facing is,

So yes, I wouldn't go quite as far as Dom, but certainly coming back to Galileo, so much of how we see the world, the colours, the sounds, the smells that seem to fill the air, I don't think that's really out there. That is part of the way we've evolved to survive and interact with the world. And, you know, one of the big questions we're facing is,

When you look at what physics seems to be pointing at now, its story of what's going on at the fundamental level of reality is wildly esoteric. Things like the wave function, this very peculiar high dimensional entity that seems to have gone beyond space and time. How do we connect the world of our conscious experience, the world of

When you look at what physics seems to be pointing at now, its story of what's going on at the fundamental level of reality is wildly esoteric. Things like the wave function, this very peculiar high dimensional entity that seems to have gone beyond space and time. How do we connect the world of our conscious experience, the world of