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I've listened to the video briefly. Unless I missed it, nowhere did I hear Goff say that he considers consciousness to be the primary ontological absolute. The closest was that they both think that “consciousness is fundamental”, but Goff thinks that the physical world is also fundamental. That doesn't make sense to me. How can they both be fundamental? In any case that's a somewhat vague statement – what precisely does he mean? Surely that's not anything close to Kastrup's idealism. In his book Goff was arguing that consciousness must be a fundamental attribute of matter, apparently making matter primary although, for reasons I couldn't understand, JPK disagreed.

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Graham Pemberton
Graham Pemberton

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I am a singer/songwriter interested in spirituality, politics, psychology, science, and their interrelationships. grahampemberton.com spiritualityinpolitics.com

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