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of Conversations with Coleman. My guest today is Philip Gough. Philip is a philosopher known for his work

on consciousness and the philosophy of mind,

particularly for his defense of pan-psychism, the view that consciousness is a fundamental feature of the

universe. He's an associate professor at Durham University in the UK. His books include Galileo's

error, foundations for a new science of consciousness, and consciousness and fundamental

reality. So Philip is an advocate of a controversial but very interesting theory of consciousness

known as pan-psychism, and he defends it as well as I've ever heard it defended. But before we

get there in this conversation, we rehearse what may be familiar ground

to some listeners. We talk about the hard problem of consciousness, as opposed to the easy

problems of consciousness. We talk about the problem with materialist explanations of consciousness.

We talk about the problem with dualist explanations of consciousness. Philip challenges my narrative about

scientific progress in a really interesting way. We talk about the global workspace and

integrated information theories of consciousness. We talk about the principle of parsimony in science

and how it relates to rival theories of consciousness. And finally, we get to Philip's case

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