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

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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