{"podcast":{"title":"Eye On A.I.","slug":"eye-on-ai","podcast_index_feed_id":832104,"rss_url":"https://aneyeonai.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://www.eye-on.ai","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/0/2/1/3/0213c7d9616b570b16c3140a3186d450/LOGO_1400x1400.jpg","author":"Craig S. Smith","episode_count":359,"summary":"Eye on A.I. is a biweekly podcast, hosted by longtime New York Times correspondent Craig S. Smith. In each episode, Craig will talk to people making a difference in artificial intelligence. The podcast aims to put incremental advances into a broader context and consider the global implications of the developing technology. AI is about to change your world, so pay attention.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-30T04:19:30.572988+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/eye-on-ai"},"episode":{"title":"How Modern Science Got Consciousness Wrong From the Start | Philip Goff","slug":"how-modern-science-got-consciousness-wrong-from-the-start-philip-goff","published_at":"2026-06-29T13:46:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/eye-on-ai/how-modern-science-got-consciousness-wrong-from-the-start-philip-goff","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/eye-on-ai","url":"https://aneyeonai.libsyn.com/how-modern-science-got-consciousness-wrong-from-the-start-philip-goff","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/pdst.fm/e/arttrk.com/p/VI4CS/prfx.byspotify.com/e/mgln.ai/e/p58841/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/aneyeonai/CS-359-A_V2.mp3?dest-id=727317","summary":"Modern science may have fundamentally misaligned itself with reality by treating consciousness as an external variable rather than a core component of physics. Philip Goff argues for panpsychism, suggesting that subjective experience is a fundamental feature of all matter, from atoms to complex brains.","meta_description":"Philosopher Philip Goff explains why panpsychism might solve the hard problem of consciousness and why current AI architectures may never be truly sentien…","key_points":["Main idea: Galileo's scientific revolution inadvertently created the 'hard problem' by separating mathematical description from subjective experience","Failure mode: Relying solely on reductionist, experimental data (scientism) may prevent us from ever resolving the nature of consciousness","Practical takeaway: Understanding consciousness as a fundamental property of matter, rather than an emergent byproduct, changes how we evaluate AI sentience","Main idea: Panpsychism posits that consciousness is not an 'add-on' to complex brains but exists in rudimentary forms within subatomic particles","Critical distinction: High-level functional behaviors in LLMs and robotics do not inherently imply the presence of a first-person, subjective inner life"],"chapters":[{"start_ms":60000,"title":"The Panpsychist Universe","summary":"An exploration of how consciousness might extend from complex organisms down to the most basic building blocks of the universe."},{"start_ms":360000,"title":"Galileo's Scientific Error","summary":"How the separation of mathematics from qualitative experience created a fundamental gap in our scientific understanding."},{"start_ms":600000,"title":"Consciousness as a Fundamental Property","summary":"Comparing the nature of consciousness to fundamental physical constants like space-time."},{"start_ms":900000,"title":"Fields, Particles, and Subjectivity","summary":"Discussing the intersection of modern field theory and the possibility of consciousness within universal fields."},{"start_ms":1140000,"title":"The Limits of AI Sentience","summary":"Why complex computational processes and large language models may lack true subjective experience."},{"start_ms":1440000,"title":"The Flesh of the Physical Universe","summary":"Viewing consciousness as the intrinsic substance of reality rather than an abstract computation."},{"start_ms":1740000,"title":"Defining Subjective Experience","summary":"Clarifying the 'what it is like' aspect of consciousness, from sensory perception to robotics."}],"topics":["Panpsychism","Philosophy of Mind","Artificial Intelligence","Quantum Mechanics","Neuroscience","Galileo","Subjective Experience","Integrated Information Theory"],"duration_seconds":3680,"processing_state":"processed","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/eye-on-ai/episodes/how-modern-science-got-consciousness-wrong-from-the-start-philip-goff/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/eye-on-ai/how-modern-science-got-consciousness-wrong-from-the-start-philip-goff.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}