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#123 - Meet The Most Persuasive Panpsychist Alive Today
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- Giants Shoulder
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- May 26, 2026
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- 4628
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Want to go deeper on consciousness? Join our community where we run live discussions, inner experience challenges and early ad free access to every episode: https://www.skool.com/the-giants-shoulder-6526/about Philip Goff is a professor of philosophy at Durham University and author of Galileo's Error and Why? The Purpose of the Universe. Stephen Fry called him the most persuasive panpsychist alive.Physics tells us everything about what matter does — but nothing about what it actually is. Goff argues this isn't a gap we'll close — it's a permanent hole. And the best candidate to fill it is consciousness itself. Expect to learn why physics can only describe what stuff does and not what it is, how Evan's sister discovered at 31 she has zero mental imagery, why Bertrand Russell may have already solved consciousness a hundred years ago, what 5-MeO-DMT revealed to a philosopher about the nature of reality, the difference between weak and strong emergence and why it matters for AI, and much more… Timestamps: 00:00 Trailer 02:21 What Makes Consciousness Radically Different 05:24 Evan's Descriptive Experience Sampling Experiment 06:42 Discovering Aphantasia at 31 08:27 Change Blindness and the Invisible Gorilla 10:40 Mary's Room: What Red Looks Like 13:21 Why Consciousness Theories Ignore Subjective Experience 16:48 The Resurgence of Panpsychism 18:14 Bertrand Russell: The Darwin of Consciousness20:13 Evan's Psychedelic Journey Toward Biopsychism22:12 Taking 5-MeO-DMT as a Philosopher24:38 Michael Pollan, Plants and Psychedelic Openness28:45 Is Consciousness Computational or Biological? 30:43 The Combination Problem: How Tiny Minds Become One 37:17 Russell's Inversion: Start With Consciousness 40:21 The Hole in Physics: What Stuff Does vs What It IS 41:50 Why Bernardo Kastrup G…