1. Panpsychism is true. — Weeknd
how in the first place could the 'physical stuff' have (read primitive form of the CNS) begun to learn what states of qualia its 'pansychist stuff' is in? — Weeknd
3. Even though we see acts of altruism and sacrifice, one can argue that it's ultimately for one's own contentment/ satisfaction or ego. They're still doing these things for their own self, in a way. So I'd say psychological egoism is trivially true . Note that this tendency does NOT imply all acts of kindness are worthless. — Weeknd
8. From (7), it follows that organisms have had this tendency to pursue pleasurable activities and minimise pain even before these activities gave them evolutionary advantages. — Weeknd
6. Sure, most activities that are pleasurable (good food, winning something, sex, music, exercise etc) are also absolutely necessary for survival, but there are a lots of things too, which are really pleasurable, but offer no real advantage to the survival of the individual's species in terms of evolution.
7. All activities that have the feel-good factor are not necessarily activities that are beneficial to one's evolutionary fitness. But organisms keep doing them anyways. — Weeknd
evolution itself assumes the predisposition of organisms to behave egotistically, and uses this fact to eliminate (or propagate) individuals from a gene pool. — Weeknd
My guess is that organisms are intrinsically egoist, as a micro quality derived from the panpsychist "stuff" itself. — Weeknd
I think there are other ways to recognize the primacy of consciousness other than by objectifying it in this way. — Wayfarer
I think reductionist efforts are usually doomed to fail, in trying to explain ethical and metaphysical questions in scientific terms. — Wayfarer
I think reductionist efforts are usually doomed to fail, in trying to explain ethical and metaphysical questions in scientific terms. — Wayfarer
Inert matter needed to able to differentiate sensations. It simply couldn't have been the case that activities that produce positive inner experiences are just linked to survival randomly — Weeknd
secular intelligentsia' — Wayfarer
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