Eye on A.I. · Monday, June 29, 2026
Philip Goff proposes pansychism as a potential solution to the mind-body problem, suggesting it can help reintegrate consciousness into the scientific framework from which Galileo arguably excluded it. He argues that Galileo's division of reality into a quantitative physical world and a non-quantitative mental world, while enabling scientific progress, left subjective experience unaddressed.
“So there is information here, information about the nature of consciousness that you can't capture in a mathematical, purely quantitative language. So what did Galileo do? He took consciousness outside of the domain of science, right? He basically divided reality into two.”
“And I think if we now want to fully bring consciousness into the scientific story, we need to somehow bring together what Galileo separated, joining them back together. And I think pansychism offers the best way to do that.”