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The Intrinsic Nature of Matter
38:03 - 43:39 (05:35)
Physicists have long been unable to determine the intrinsic nature of matter, instead relying on the behavior of matter to describe it. However, some scientists now believe that it may have an intrinsic nature after all.
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There has been a recent resurgence of interest in consciousness in academic philosophy, following a period where people pretended it did not exist.
38:03 - 40:52 (02:48)
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There has been a recent resurgence of interest in consciousness in academic philosophy, following a period where people pretended it did not exist. This has largely been due to rediscovered work from the 1920s by philosopher Bertrand Russell, who challenged the logical positivist belief that anything not answerable by experiment is meaningless gibberish.
ChapterThe Intrinsic Nature of Matter
Episode#272 - Philip Goff - What Is Consciousness?
PodcastModern Wisdom
The podcast discusses two issues with the understanding of intrinsic natures in light of physical science, highlighting the limitation of physics in describing the intrinsic nature of matter and the behavior of matter.
40:52 - 43:39 (02:47)
Summary
The podcast discusses two issues with the understanding of intrinsic natures in light of physical science, highlighting the limitation of physics in describing the intrinsic nature of matter and the behavior of matter.