What Is Consciousness? Philip Goff On The Nature of Reality & The Science of Mind

The Rich Roll Podcast

Rich Roll

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🗓️ 6 March 2023

⏱️ 123 minutes

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What is consciousness? Where does it come from? What happens to consciousness when we die? And what is the nature of reality? It’s time to ask the big questions and tackle the hard problems that have perplexed humanity since the dawn of inquiry. Our guide for today’s journey is Philip Goff, PhD, a modern philosopher who has devoted his life to better understanding the qualities of reality. Philip is an associate professor of philosophy at Durham University who specializes in the nature of consciousness. He is a proponent of panpsychism—the controversial theory that everything material in our universe is imbued with some element of individual consciousness—which he beautifully captures in his fascinating book, Galileo's Error. This is a fascinating, awe-inspiring conversation about the science of mind, the nature of reality and consciousness, the meaning of the multiverse, artificial intelligence, and spirituality. A conversation that I must admit began to stretch past the boundary of my intellectual capabilities—but in the most enjoyable way possible Show notes + MORE Watch on YouTube Newsletter Sign-Up Today’s Sponsors: InsideTracker: insidetracker.com/RichRoll LMNT: drinkLMNT.com/RICHROLL BetterHelp: BetterHelp.com/richroll Indeed: Indeed.com/RICHROLL Athletic Greens: https://www.athleticgreens.com/richroll Plant Power Meal Planner: https://meals.richroll.com Peace + Plants, Rich

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0:00.0	The Rich Roll Podcast
0:14.0	We need to expand the task of science to construct a theory that can accommodate both the
0:20.2	data of observation experiments, of course, but also this privately known reality of consciousness.
0:28.8	My guest today is Philip Goff.
0:31.7	Philip is an associate professor of philosophy at Durham University in the United Kingdom,
0:37.6	with a focus on the nature of consciousness.
0:41.3	But when we're trying to explain consciousness, it's not about explaining behavior with
0:45.6	mechanisms, it's about accounting for this invisible but undeniable, privately known
0:51.4	reality of our feelings and experiences.
0:53.6	He is a proponent of something called panpsychism, which is this really interesting theory
0:59.1	that everything material in our universe has some element of individual consciousness,
1:06.1	which is a theory that he explores in his fascinating book called Galileo's Error,
1:11.3	which I highly recommend.
1:12.7	It's consciousness that's fundamental and the physical world arises from underlying facts
1:18.6	about mind or consciousness.
1:20.7	We explore panpsychism, of course.
1:23.4	We talk about the science of mind, the nature of reality and consciousness, as well as
1:30.2	the multiverse AI and spirituality.
1:33.9	And it's coming right up, but first, we're brought to you today by Inside Tracker.
1:41.3	No two bodies are the same.
1:43.6	Well, general principles can guide all of us on some level.
1:47.8	I think it's fair to say we're all kind of end of one experiments.
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