“What Am I — Qualia, Brahman, Neurons, or just Nothing?”
“How did early science design the Hard Problem, and how do we solve it?”
Chat with SagePhilip Goff's case for panpsychism. It deconstructs the history of modern science to show that the Hard Problem is a methodological creation, not a biological fact.
Galileo divided reality into quantitative properties (which science can measure) and qualitative properties (experienced color, sound, taste), which he placed in the mind. This exclusion created the Hard Problem by designing a science of matter that left out consciousness.
Physics describes what matter *does* (mass, charge, spin), not what it *is* in itself. Panpsychism proposes that the intrinsic nature of matter is consciousness, providing the missing qualitative foundation for quantitative physics.
Analyzes Goff's critique of the Galilean division of science. He argues that a complete science must integrate both physical quantities and conscious qualities, making consciousness a fundamental property alongside mass and charge.
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