# Philip Goff

philip goff is a British author, philosopher and consciousness researcher, specializing in philosophy of mind at Durham University, UK. His research focuses on integrating consciousness into the scientific worldview. He holds that materialism is incoherent and that, on the other hand, dualism leads to “complexity, discontinuity and mystery” Instead he supports a “third way”, a version of Russellian monism which attempts to account for the intrinsic nature of reality by positing that consciousness is itself a fundamental and ubiquitous feature of the physical world. “The basic commitment is that the fundamental constituents of reality—perhaps electrons and quarks—have incredibly simple forms of experience.“ == Biography == === Early life and education === Goff wrote that he was obsessed with the problem of consciousness as long as he could remember.