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Philip Goff is related to physics because he critiques the discipline's historical limitation to quantitative descriptions [1], [2] and utilizes Bertrand Russell's insights regarding the structural nature of physics to support his neo-Russellian monist philosophy [3].
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accountPhilip Goff recounts that Galileo Galilei established a sharp distinction between the quantitative, mathematically describable aspects of matter and the qualitative aspects like colors, sounds, and feelings, stipulating that physics would confine itself to the former.
perspectivePhilip Goff argues that by limiting physics to the quantitative aspects of matter, science rendered consciousness invisible to physical theory by design, leaving physics to describe what matter does rather than what it is intrinsically.
claimPhilip Goff and Galen Strawson advocate for a neo-Russellian monist view of consciousness, which is based on Bertrand Russell's insight that physics reveals the structure of matter but not its intrinsic character.