Welcome to Within Reason.

My name is Alex O'Connor, and did you know that you can get early access to these podcast

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help this podcast to continue to grow my guest today is Dr Philip Gough

Philip Gough is an associate professor at Durham University and a researcher in the philosophy of mind and consciousness.

He's also perhaps the most well-known proponent of a rather radical view known as panpsychism.

Typically there are thought to be

two camps in the philosophy of consciousness. You're either a materialist who believes

that consciousness is just or is just the result of material occurrences within the brain.

Or you're a dualist.

dualists believe in the material world, but they also believe in the existence of a non-material

entity usually called a mind or perhaps a soul.

Panpsychism purports to offer a quite revolutionary third option.

According to the panpsychist, many more things than just human and animal minds have consciousness.

Indeed, consciousness is thought to be the fundamental property of the universe and a ubiquitous feature of it.

Of course, this view does take some considerable

explanation and that's why you're about to listen to what I think is the

longest episode of the Within Reason podcast ever produced coming in at just

over two hours which is about double the length of a usual

episode so hey today you're getting two for the price of one if you're interested in

learning more about pan psychism and Philip Gough's popular level book Galileo's

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