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Philip Goff

Philip Goff

Philip Goff is a Associate professor of Philosophy at the Central European University. He resides in Budapest, Hungary.

Biography

Philip Goff is originally from the United Kingdom and earned his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Reading. Goff's main focus of research is trying to explain how the brain produces consciousness. His first book Consciousness and Fundamental Reality was published with Oxford University Press in June 2017. [1]

Philosophy of Consciousness

Consciousness and Fundamental Reality - by Prof. Philip Goff

Consciousness and Fundamental Reality - by Prof. Philip Goff

Goff states that consciousness is experience and different beings have different levels of it.

For example, human consciousness is more advanced than dog consciousness while dog consciousness is more advanced than crab consciousness and so on.

Goff believes that a theory of consciousness cannot be derived for purely quantitative means.

He contends that modern science, which has Mathematics, is not suitable to measure something that is qualitative such as consciousness. He also asserts the cosmopsychist view; that the Universe does have a consciousness and that the universe acts to maximize value so long as in the constraints of the laws of physics.

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