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The Will to Believe

William James ISBN 159547143

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This book by William James came up once on Tim Ferriss in the episodes we index. That mention was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Philip Goff. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.

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Exploring Consciousness and Non-Ordinary Religion, Panpsychism, and Heretical Ideas — Philip Goff

“Everyone should read William James. He's a patron saint of great intellectual thinking”
“his great paper the will to believe which he later thought I think rightly should have been called the right to believe”— Philip Goff

The guest here is Philip Goff: Philosopher and academic who has built his career defending panpsychism, the view that consciousness goes all the way down to the fundamental building blocks of reality. Author of Galileo's Error and Why? The Purpose of the Universe. Philosopher Philip Goff makes the case for panpsychism, explores consciousness and quantum mechanics, and shares his return to a heretical Christianity.

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