Philip Goff

This is the first time I hear that name. However, I’ve found David Chalmers, whose work I’m more or less familiar with (he coined the term “hard problem of consciousness”, IIRC), among the editorial reviews, and that’s all I need to know.

I think we are close to digesting the apple.

I would say that we are merely close to understanding that we have a problem with digestion. Still, it’s a good start. Because only when we know what actually bothers us, we can apply the proper treatment. Then again we know the exact nature of our problem for at least six millenia.

Being stuck in duality is not a failing on our part

Definitely, and I would say that it has everything to do with our natural evolution. As a pocket calculator cannot be affected by a PC virus, so a simple mind is immune from certain kind of ideas. And some ideas act as viruses without slightest shadow of a doubt. One could say that current pandemic is a pretty ironic mirror stuck in front of humanity’s face. The whole of our race is threatened, however, COVID-19 is the slightest of our problems.

As a side note — it’s funny how Jews are in the year 5780, which puts the beginning of the creation somewhere around 4000 BCE. I say it’s funny because 4000–3000 BCE roughly coincides with invention of metallurgy, wheel, writing systems, and essentially stratified civilization as we know it today. It’s really fascinating when you look at that period. A lot of things make a lot of sense and explain even more.