I cannot help but associate the "thinking oneself" with Heidegger's Nietzsche Lectures in Nazi-Germany. I'm sorry.In the context of the times, I think it was a step forward, though ultimately it was the wrong step.
In the east they landed on consciousness, and I think this resulted in a much better understanding. — Pop
Really? I wouldn't think of his works as literature for under-aged. But I guess that doesn't matter if it was useful... As for the eastern philosophy - I'm afraid I cannot help you with that: I barely know the yin-yang principle.I'm not familiar with those. I read Nietzsche at 14, and haven't found the need to read him again. I'm mostly interested in eastern philosophy. — Pop
If you change the definition of words, it's going to be hard to communicate... It takes a lot of time and chance to get to true consciousness. It doesn't come with just a few Lego bricks... For me, the early universe was not conscious in any way, and consciousness emerged progressively from it, through life.In my theory, consciousness = self organization. That everything that can happen dose happen, given enough time, is due entirely to self organization. — Pop
If you change the definition of words, it's going to be hard to communicate... It takes a lot of time and chance to get to true consciousness. It doesn't come with just a few Lego bricks... For me, the early universe was not conscious in any way, and consciousness emerged progressively from it, through life. — Olivier5
Not to be pedant, but panpsychism doesn't actually provide a solution to this problem. It rather explains how animate matter becomes ever more animate. In doing so it trivializes the problem, it underplays the radical novelty and importance of life, in my view. Life is information bossing matter around. It radically changes the rules of the game. And the centuries of effort you mentioned were inspired by mechanics. That was the wrong track, the wrong metaphor. Seeing biology as infused with meaning is a better way to solve the hard problem and explain how consciousness emerged.ultimately a philosopher has to answer how inanimate matter becomes animate, and there is no solution from the paradigm that you pose. Not even a hint of a solution, even after several hundred years of effort. However, a panpsychist solution exists. — Pop
Why yes. It's where the idea comes from, in fact. — Olivier5
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