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Philip Goff is a British author, idealist philosopher, and professor at Durham University whose research focuses on philosophy of mind and consciousness. [1] Specifically, it focuses on how consciousness can be part of the scientific worldview.
Philosopher Philip Goff argues that the inference of a multiverse to explain the apparent fine-tuning of the universe is an example of Inverse Gambler's Fallacy. [ 61 ] Stoeger, Ellis, and Kircher [ 62 ] : sec. 7 note that in a true multiverse theory, "the universes are then completely disjoint and nothing that happens in any one of them is ...
Galileo's Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness is a 2019 book authored by British philosopher Philip Goff. The book presents a defense of the theory of panpsychism as the solution to the hard problem of consciousness. [1]
The quantum-mechanical "Schrödinger's cat" paradox according to the many-worlds interpretation.In this interpretation, every quantum event is a branch point; the cat is both alive and dead, even before the box is opened, but the "alive" and "dead" cats are in different branches of the multiverse, both of which are equally real, but which do not interact with each other.
Philip Goff believes that neutral monism can reasonably be regarded as a form of panpsychism "in so far as it is a dual aspect view". [1] Neutral monism, panpsychism, and dual aspect theory are grouped together or used interchangeably in some contexts. [46] [75] [6]
Since Descartes, philosophers have been occupied with the concept of consciousness and its subjective nature has posed a special problem for science. Its nature arises from the neuronal structures in the brain and some understanding of these, together with the experimental tools needed to explore them, is given in the following chapters.
Philip Goff or Phillip Goff may refer to: Phil Goff, New Zealand politician; Philip Goff (philosopher), British philosopher; Phillip Atiba Goff, American psychologist
The Journal of Consciousness Studies is abstracted in the Philosopher's Index, Social Sciences Research Index, ISI Alerting Services (Includes Research Alert), Current Contents, Arts and Humanities Research Index, Social and Behavioural Sciences, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Social Scisearch and PsycINFO.