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#272 - Philip Goff - What Is Consciousness?

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.74.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Philip Goff is a Professor of Philosophy at Durham University and an author.

Consciousness is the most evident of all phenomenons. It's the one thing we can actually be sure of, and yet we have a very limited understanding of what it is and why it's here.

Expect to learn the main philosophical positions on consciousness, why Philip thinks the old proposals are insufficient to explain our awareness, what time racism means, why Deepak Chopra just won't me alone and much more...

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello friends, welcome back to the show. My guest today is Philip Goff, professor of philosophy at Durham University and an author.

0:07.6

We are talking about one of my favorite topics today, which is consciousness.

0:11.6

Consciousness is the most evident of all phenomena. It's literally the one thing that we can be sure of that exists.

0:18.8

And yet we have a very limited understanding of what it is and why it's here.

0:22.4

So today, expect to learn the main philosophical positions on consciousness.

0:26.1

Why Philip thinks the old proposals are insufficient? What time racism means? Why D-Pack Chopra just won't leave me alone?

0:33.6

And much more. Honestly, I feel like I could have a discussion on this for days.

0:37.9

I love getting a philosopher on, like Philip, who's been in the literature and thinking about this topic for years and years.

0:43.6

And then we just get to hear over the space of an hour everything that he's learned over decades of research.

0:49.6

And then we're fully up to speed. We're mostly up to speed about what it is that he's found out.

0:54.9

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