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Galen Strawson on Panpsychism

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The Problem With Experiential Reality

There is no argument here, it's just a great big intuition. We don't know anything about the nature of the physical that gives us any reason to think that its intrinsic nature isn't partly experiential. I suppose one answer to a question is a kind of argument from strangeness, from weirdness. It would be very strange for me to go around thinking that a bit of paper has some kind of proto experiential aspect to it. The thing about it is an assumption which causes this huge problem. If you make that assumption then you have to somehow magically experiential out of the non-experiential. You just simply don't have to do if you suppose that

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