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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