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#99 Matt Segall: Panexperientialism, God, Metaphysics and What Neuroscience Is Getting Wrong!

#99 Matt Segall: Panexperientialism, God, Metaphysics and What Neuroscience Is Getting Wrong!

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Matt Segall is a process philosopher, Associate Professor at the
California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, and
author of Physics of the World-Soul and Crossing the Threshold —
two books arguing that consciousness isn't produced by the brain
but is woven into the fabric of reality itself.

Expect to learn why there is no scientific evidence that
consciousness exists, how one French philosopher broke Western
science in 1637 and we still haven't fixed it, why the brain is a
condition for consciousness but not the producer of it, what
panpsychism actually claims and why it's making a serious
comeback, why the hard problem of consciousness and the origin of
life might be the same problem, what it might feel like to be
water or a photon, how psychedelics reveal something philosophy
has been saying for centuries, and much more…

Timestamps:

00:00 The Nature of Consciousness

02:52 Evidence and Experience

06:09 Consciousness and the Brain

09:09 Emergence vs. Production of Consciousness

12:11 Panpsychism and Process Philosophy

15:08 Information and Consciousness

17:47 Biopsychism and Early Consciousness

21:11 The Hard Problem of Consciousness

24:08 Subjectivity and Objectivity

27:06 The Role of Information in Reality

29:47 Consciousness and the Universe

48:25 The Relational Nature of Truth

51:10 Beyond Space and Time

54:55 The Self in a Panpsychist View

56:30 The Evidence for Panpsychism

01:00:01 Sociological Influences on Worldviews

01:03:34 Psychedelics and Consciousness

01:10:56 Navigating Reality and Hallucination

01:15:13 Falsification and Progress in Panpsychism

01:19:57 The Ethical Implications of Panpsychism

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