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Purpose and Existence | Philip Goff | The Socratic Sessions | Ep #12
📝 Viewer Note: Philip had a few technical issues with his laptop. Luckily, the audio for this conversation was fine, but after 6 minutes, Philip's video stopped working altogether.
🔍 Overview: This episode dives into Philp Goff's work within value fundamentalism, cosmic purpose and Pan-agentialism.
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🗣️ Highlights
[Highlight 1]: What is value fundamentalism?
[Highlight 2]: How could and does our universe have 'purpose'?
[Highlight 3]: How does free will and value collide?
🕒 Timestamps
0:00 - Introduction
2:19 - Books, Twitter and Grants
6:49 - Cosmic Purpose
9:30 - Value Subjectivism/Nihilism/Fundamentalism
18:56 - Value and Entropy
24:03 - Value Fundamentalism then Cosmic Purpose
30:00 - Platonism and Purpose
35:45 - Current Cultural Resistance
42:59 - Consciousness, Philosophy and Panpsychism
50:13 - Pan-agentialism
1:05:45 - The Future: LLMs, AGI, Agency and Value
1:13:24 - Good vs Evil (Pan-agentialism vs Physicalism)
1:23:15 - Religion and Reality
1:28:28 - Philip's Current Endeavours
1:33:03 - Closing Remarks
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Fine-tuning and the Problem of Evil | Philip Goff | The Socratic Sessions | Ep #2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl-J0SLg21U
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Galileo's Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness by Philip Goff: https://amzn.to/3HDprme
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