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Neuroscience gives correlations, not explanation

Neuroscience provides rich correlations between brain activity and conscious experience, but correlations alone are not a complete theory; to solve the hard problem we must explain why a given brain state is accompanied by a given experience, and the quantitative vocabulary of physical science makes it hard to see how such an explanation could be provided.

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Speaker

Philip Goff

Evidence Quote

that in itself is not the full story, because if we want a complete theory of consciousness... we want to explain those correlations

Source

71 | Philip Goff on Consciousness EverywhereSean Carroll's Mindscape
Created: 6/13/2026, 12:10:44 AM

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