Philip Goff

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Philip Goff is a philosophy professor at Durham University, UK. He spends most of his time trying to work out the ultimate nature of reality.

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Is the Universe conscious? A panpsychism Q&A with philosopher Philip Goff

We need a hypothesis that accounts for both the fine-tuning of physics for life but also the arbitrariness and gratuitous suffering we find in the world.

Marcelo Gleiser & Philip Goff

Panpsychism is crazy, but it’s also most probably true

The idea is just as ‘crazy’ as Einstein telling us that time slows down at high speeds, or Darwin saying that our ancestors were apes.

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