Do trees have minds? A friend posed this question during one of the high school afternoons we habitually spent—no doubt with too much time on our hands—engaging in amateur philosophical banter. It struck me immediately as absurd. Minds require physical brains, I replied, as well as observable behavior that demonstrates the existence of a mind behind it. He was not convinced and responded that trees might have a type of consciousness that is different from ours.
In Goff’s version of panpsychism, consciousness is also the deep nature of reality and underlies the basic mathematical structures of physics.
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In Goff’s version of panpsychism, consciousness is also the deep nature of reality and underlies the basic mathematical structures of physics.
Consciousness all the way down
If consciousness is universal and the universe is fine-tuned for life, Philip Goff argues, then there must be a cosmic...
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