Philip Goff: Consciousness and Galileo's Error (#230)

Philip Goff is a philosopher and consciousness researcher at Durham
University, UK. His research focuses on how to integrate
consciousness into a scientific worldview. Goff argues that the
traditional approaches of materialism (consciousness explained in
terms of physical processes in the brain) and dualism
(consciousness is separate from the body and brain) face
insuperable difficulties. He therefore defends a form of
panpsychism, the view that consciousness is a fundamental and
ubiquitous feature of the physical world, not confined to
biological entities but is a fundamental feature of all physical
matter—from subatomic particles to the human brain..  Goff’s
new book, Galileo's Error: Foundations for a New Science of
Consciousness, traces the problem of consciousness back to the
foundations of the scientific revolution, in Galileo's decision to
set consciousness outside of the domain of science. He offers a
provocative argument for panpsychism’s radically new picture of
human consciousness.   Understanding how brains produce
consciousness is one of the great scientific challenges of our age.
Some philosophers argue that consciousness is something "extra,"
beyond the physical workings of the brain. Others think that if we
persist in our standard scientific methods, our questions about
consciousness will eventually be answered. And some even suggest
that the mystery is so deep, it will never be solved. Decades have
been spent trying to explain consciousness from within our current
scientific paradigm, but little progress has been made. In
Galileo’s Error, Goff offers an exciting alternative that could
pave the way forward. Galileo's Error: Foundations for a New
Science of Consciousness On Amazon www.philipgoffphilosophy.com/
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