Very good talk on the greatest riddle of all time!
Understanding how brains produce consciousness is one of the great scientific challenges of our age. Some philosophers argue that the mystery is so deep it will never be solved. Others believe our standard scientific methods for investigating the brain will eventually produce an answer.
A new and revolutionary movement pushes a third way: we struggle to explain consciousness because physical science, as we currently conceive it, is not designed to deal with the issue. Building on the themes of his forthcoming book Galileo’s Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness, Dr Philip Goff will explain how the philosophical underpinnings of the scientific revolution created the problem of consciousness in the first place, and what we need to do to solve it.