24 February 2022 - 24 February 2022
7:30PM - 9:00PM
Rochester Building, PH8
Free
Foundations for a new science of consciousness.
A PUBLIC LECTURE BY: DR. PHILIP GOFF DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY DURHAM UNIVERSITY
In the standard view, consciousness exists only in the brains of highly evolvedorganisms and hence only in a tiny part of the universe at late times. In contrast,according to panpsychism, consciousness pervades the universe and is a fundamentalfeature of it. This view sounds strange but a growing number of philosophers andneuroscientists are starting to think it might be our best hope for integratingconsciousness into a scientific story of the universe. In this talk, based on his book“Galileo’s Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness”, Dr. Goff explains whyconsciousness poses a challenge for science and why panpsychism might be the answer.