![]() ![]() In the very long video below (3 hours 14 minutes!), there’s a mano a mano verbal exchange in which Sean, in his usual polite but firm way, tells Goff that he’s simply wrong about panpsychism and that Goff is too stubborn to admit it. Carroll that, in my view, demolishes the idea of panpsychism because it grossly violates the laws of physics-of the “complete” description of the world that “the core theory of physics” presents. One of those posts highlights a paper by Sean M. ![]() Panpsychism is, I think, pure bunk, and you can read my earlier posts to see why. Voilà: the “hard problem” of consciousness explained! Philip Goff, one of the three discussants in the video below, is the primary exponent of this theory. The “conscious” molecules and atoms are supposed to combine, under certain unspecified and mysterious rules, into brains that have a higher-level consciousness. I’ve written a fair amount on this site about panpsychism, the view that everything in the Universe, including electrons, rocks, and organisms, have a form of consciousness. ![]()
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