Summary: Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Philip Goff, whose latest book, his second, is Galileos Error: Foundations For A New Science of Consciousness, published in November last year by Pantheon. His first book, by the way, was Consciousness And Fundamental Reality He is a philosopher and consciousness researcher at Durham University. Galileo’s Error is centered on the idea of panpsychism, a construct, if you will, that consciousness is fundamental and all encompassing and threads it way throughout the universe. Philip admits that this idea sounds a “bit crazy”, the idea that even the most constituent particles of nature, electrons, quarks, gluons contain, retain a certain very simple ability, characteristic of self-awareness, if you will. I may be misstating this theory somewhat, but I don’t blame myself, I blame the concept. One, I may be too ignorant to grasp the concept, two the possibility that all of what Philip posits is wrong.
