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Quotes from Philip Goff

Panpsychists believe that consciousness is a fundamental and ubiquitous feature of the physical world. An increasing number of philosophers and even some neuroscientists are coming around to the idea that it may be our best hope for solving the problem of consciousness
~ Philip Goff
Panpsychism is the view that consciousness is a fundamental and ubiquitous feature of physical reality.
~ Philip Goff
The appropriate attitude to mystical experiences for those who haven't had them is probably one of agnosticism, the withholding of belief either that mystical experiences provide genuine insight into the nature of reality or that they are delusions.
~ Philip Goff
Contemporary materialism is not a solution but a stubborn refusal to face up to the problem.
~ Philip Goff
particle in a superposition between location X and location Y is in a strange state of being both at X and at Y while being definitely at neither.
~ Philip Goff
quantum entanglement," technically defined as a situation in which the quantum state of one particle cannot be described independently of the quantum state of another.
~ Philip Goff
If Galileo traveled in time to the present day to hear that we are having difficulty giving a physical explanation of consciousness, he would most likely respond, "Of course you are, I designed physical science to deal with quantities not qualities!
~ Philip Goff