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    Dr. Philip Goff, Will Academia Get Beyond Materialism? |409|

    I'm attracted to panpsychism because of the Russell-Eddington view I talked about briefly. The basic idea is that physics doesn't tell us what matter is, only what it does. Thus, there is a giant hole in a scientific picture of reality. By inserting consciousness in that hole, we get a much more...
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    Dr. Philip Goff, Will Academia Get Beyond Materialism? |409|

    It's broadly agreed in academic philosophy that what neuroscience contributes to the science of consciousness is correlations. They may also provide explanations of other mental phenomena, so long as those phenomena are defined functionally. Many neuroscientists add that if they go on doing what...
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