Cosmic Consciousness, Panpsychism and Mystery of Mind with Dr. Philip Goff | Mind Meld 376
THIRD EYE DROPS
Michael Phillip
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🗓️ 26 January 2024
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Professor and author and panpsychist philosopher, Philip Goff enters the mind meld!
In this one, we talk consciousness, panpsychism, mystical experiences, cosmic purpose, and more.
Philip's new book, Why? The Purpose of the Universe is available now.
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| 0:00.0 | Now administering third eye drops. He asked me to teach philosophy of religion and typical course where you teach the arguments against guard and then you teach the arguments for God and then the students have to make their own mind up and write their essay. |
| 0:29.0 | But I seem to be having evidence pointing in two directions, you know, it's thought the arguments for God and the arguments against God were both pretty compelling. |
| 0:36.0 | At some point I just kind of dawned on me the obvious point that actually these things weren't conflicting because traditional arguments that you learn as a |
| 0:44.8 | philosophy undergraduate against God's existence were arguing against a very particular |
| 0:50.8 | kind of God the arguments that impressed at me for quote unquote God |
| 0:56.1 | were actually arguments for something much more generic purpose or directedness |
| 1:02.1 | at the fundamental level of reality, what I call cosmic purpose. |
| 1:06.0 | Welcome back to the transmission, my friends, and I'm going to be honest with you. |
| 1:10.0 | Too much certainty annoys me. |
| 1:12.0 | There's this scurrilous little trickster in me that wants to |
| 1:16.5 | poke at people's vehement beliefs just because they require you to explore your own psyche, your own preconceived |
| 1:38.1 | notions about reality. They don't just serve you up easy pre-cooked answers. |
| 1:44.4 | Because that chapel perilous sort of idea |
| 1:47.1 | that people like Robert Anton Wilson talk about |
| 1:49.8 | is just so intrinsic to what human sense making is. I take the mystery very seriously and I really |
| 1:58.4 | think the mystery must stay a mystery because it seems like its encryption just continues to |
| 2:07.9 | complexify the more we think we learn about reality the more complicated and nonsensical it gets in a lot of senses. |
| 2:16.2 | But anyway, that open-ended appreciation for the mystery is one of the things I really admire |
| 2:21.2 | about Dr. Philip Gough. He's quickly becoming known as one of the world's |
| 2:25.9 | leading panpsychist philosophers, meaning he holds consciousness to be a fundamental element of reality. But he's also so willing to entertain new ideas and one of those ideas is that we do indeed live in a universe imbued with not only consciousness but purpose, |
| 2:47.2 | directionality, but in the sense that it's completely unfinished, it's emerging, |
| 2:51.8 | it's evolving, just like we are as individuals and collectively. |
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