Virginia Lee Montgomery: Dream Cocoon

Nicole Kaack: I want to begin with the question of material consciousness. Prior to this conversation, you shared a text by Galen Strawson , who is specifically writing on the philosophical mind-body problem. For hundreds of years, philosophy has been contending with 'dualism ' - how to rationalize the fact that out of the material of our body somehow emerges consciousness. Strawson's argument is for monism, proposing that if consciousness emerges from matter, matter too must be conscious. VLM: This text by Galen is about 20 years old, but in...