The Silence of Physics | Galen Strawson | Talks at Google

What is the silliest claim ever made in the history of humanity? The competition is fierce, but Professor Galen Strawson thinks the answer is easy: some people have denied the existence of consciousness - i.e. conscious experience, the subjective character of experience, the “what-it-is-like” of experience, including the simple fact that “grass looks green“. In this interactive Q&A session, Strawson tries to convince you that there is no conflict between a ‘hard-nosed’ physicalist/materialist/naturalistic scientific approach to the world and all-out belief in the reality of consciousness, conscious experience, good old fashioned qualia - whatever you want to call it or them; and further, that this is the right worldview given our evidence about the world. Get his book here: