...what are termed the nobler parts of our nature are supposed to be inexplicable, unless the universe always contained something at least equally noble which could cause them...
Some panpsychists take a very conceptual approach think that it impossible to make sense of the idea of the emergence of consciousness because the concept does not seem to admit of degree — Bert1
perhaps consciousness is a property of space. This has some intuitive appeal for me as it fits with the phenomenology quite well. — "Bert1
The IIT is a very different kind of panpsychism, and very differently theoretically motivated. — Bert1
take out the role God plays in maintaining the existence of the external world of ideas, and substitute panpsychism - everything exists in a vast web of mutually perceiving and mutually defining subjects, then I think that is close to Sprigge's view — Bert1
When we switch consciousness on and off, are we switching consciousness? Or are we switching identity on and off? — Bert1
the only causation we actually know happens is psychological - we cause our arm to go up, for example. But this seems to compete with other, physical, causal accounts involving neurons firing. — Bert1
Well, that's very interesting. You have the start of a theory, or at least line of enquiry. I would question whether we can explain their behaviour through non-conscious processes - when we get to the level of forces, we end up saying 'that's just what happens'. But if those forces are wills, we can go, perhaps, one step further into something we can understand - 'because that's what they will'. — Bert1
Disingenuous...I said understanding takes place by (i.e. through) either intuition or science, I did not personify science.Science doesn’t understand anything because science isn’t a conscious being. — I like sushi
To say that the universe is a medium for consciousness is no different than saying conscious being exist in the universe … which they do. That is not panpsychism it is just agreeing that conscious beings exist. — I like sushi
I thought this was well known? The motivation is bound up in the problem of understanding ‘consciousness’. — I like sushi
why does panpsychism want to put consciousness everywhere? — Daemon
there is no harm in thinking outside the box and proposing something like panpsychism really … it is just not something that anyone can offer up a testable hypothesis for right now so it is mostly a speculative idea. — I like sushi
There is a difference between pure fantasy and highly speculative ideas. Sadly it seems some think the line is somewhere I don’t. — I like sushi
Entities arise through biology. Before single-celled organisms there was nothing with an inside and an outside, so to speak. That "individuation" is a precondition for consciousness, which arrives later, as an evolutionary development of non-conscious "sensing" processes in the organism. — Daemon
Entities arise through biology. — Daemon
Before single-celled organisms there was nothing with an inside and an outside, so to speak. — Daemon
That "individuation" is a precondition for consciousness, which arrives later, as an evolutionary development of non-conscious "sensing" processes in the organism. — Daemon
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