2025-04-09
2 小时 16 分钟Hello, boys and girls, ladies and germs, this is Tim Ferriss.
Welcome to another episode of the Tim Ferriss Show.
I would say
that it is my hope with conversations like this to reintroduce perhaps a degree of wonder and questioning and awareness in my listeners that enriches their lives,
because the how to stuff, the tactical, practical,
sort of toaster instruction type, do this, do that is helpful.
But sometimes the what to do question takes precedent over everything else and you can end up operating as something like an ant in an ant colony.
And I, with these philosophical conversations,
hope to open people to different perspectives and ways of looking at their own lives and the world around them.
And my guest today is Philip Gough.
Philip is a professor of philosophy at Durham University.
His main research focus is consciousness.
Big topic.
But he's interested in many questions about the nature of reality.
We cover a lot of ground in this conversation.
He is best known for defending panpsychism,
the view that consciousness is a fundamental and ubiquitous feature of the physical world.
Fifteen years ago, panpsychism was kind of a joke.
It was laughed at, if it was thought of at all.
Gough has led a movement that has made panpsychism a mainstream position,