#27 — Philip Goff | Is Everything Conscious?

Within Reason

Alex O'Connor

Religion, Morality, Ethics, Society & Culture, Cosmicskeptic, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy

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🗓️ 18 April 2023

⏱️ 127 minutes

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Philip Goff is an Associate Professor at Durham University whose research focuses on philosophy of mind and consciousness. He is one of the world's most prominent proponents of "panpsychism", the view that consciousness is a fundamental and ubiquitous property of the universe.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Within Reason.
0:01.9	My name is Alex O'Connor,
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0:13.6	and this is also the best way that you can help this podcast
0:16.0	to continue to grow.
0:17.1	My guest today is Dr. Philip Goff.
0:19.6	Philip Goff is an associate professor at Durham University
0:22.8	and a researcher in the philosophy of mind and consciousness.
0:27.1	He's also perhaps the most well-known proponent
0:29.8	of a rather radical view known as panpsychism.
0:32.7	Typically, there are thought to be two camps
0:34.7	in the philosophy of consciousness.
0:36.8	You're either a materialist who believes that consciousness
0:39.8	is just, or is just the result of,
0:42.0	material occurrences within the brain.
0:44.6	Or you're a dualist.
0:46.0	Dualists believe in the material world,
0:48.0	but they also believe in the existence
0:49.8	of a non-material entity, usually called a mind,
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