If panpsychism is correct — if consciousness pervades the universe — what does that mean for God, morality, and the spiritual life? Philip Goff explores the fault lines within the panpsychist research program itself: between resolute atheists and those who see deep consonance with spiritual and theological traditions. From pantheism to panentheism to objective morality, this is philosophy at its most expansive.
Philip Goff is a philosopher and consciousness researcher at Durham University. He is one of the world’s leading proponents of panpsychism and the author of Galileo’s Error and Why? The Purpose of the Universe. He is regarded as a major voice in contemporary philosophy of mind and metaphysics.
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00:00 Introduction — if panpsychism is true
00:26 The split within panpsychism: secular vs. spiritual
01:38 Panpsychism and mystical experience
02:16 The Abrahamic God and panpsychism
04:02 Order of explanation vs. order of understanding
04:32 Pantheism and panentheism
05:44 Consciousness and a loving creator
05:52 Panpsychism and objective morality
07:02 Trees, consciousness, and moral significance
07:43 A world filled with consciousness is a world filled with value
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