Contemporary · Philosophy & the Self · Philosophy

Panpsychism

Philip Goff · 2019

"Consciousness is not an illusion generated by complex brains; it is a fundamental property of all physical matter in the universe."

The idea

Science can explain the physical mechanics of the brain, but it cannot explain why those mechanics are accompanied by the subjective feeling of being alive (the 'Hard Problem'). Panpsychism argues that we can't explain it because we have the equation backward.

Why it works

The takeaway — recall it first

The People-First Approach

"Technology should be built around the Human as an irreducible constant — a 'driver' separate from mind and body who retains the right to keep changing — rather than treating people as optimization targets a system can fully model and predict."

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