#150 Materialist AND Panpsychism are True - Galen Strawson
4/8/202658 min
Get Huel today with this exclusive offer for New Customers of 15% OFF with code alexoconnor at https://huel.com/alexoconnor (Minimum $50 purchase).For early, ad-free access to videos, and to support the channel, subscribe to my Substack: https://www.alexoconnor.com.Galen Strawson is a British analytic philosopher and literary critic who works primarily on philosophy of mind, metaphysics, John Locke, David Hume, Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Nietzsche.TIMESTAMPS:00:00 - Is Radical Emergence Possible?08:15 - Can Physics Describe Consciousness?12:01 - Is Everything Made of Consciousness?18:34 - Why Are People Resistant to Panpsychism?21:19 - Can Experience Alone Tell Us What...
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Alex O'Connor· Host0:56
Galen Strawson, welcome to the show.
Galen Strawson· Guest0:58
Hello. Good to be here.
Alex O'Connor· Host1:00
You are a physicalist, uh, that is to say what some people call a naturalist. You also describe yourself as a panpsychist or, uh, at least sort of aligning yourself with these terms in, in relatively specific ways. I want to get into that because I think my audience will find it interesting. But first, just before we started talking, you said that the trouble with speaking about this kind of stuff is that it's just so difficult to get people to agree with you. W-what, what do you think is the, the sort of unintuitive