The Importance of Consciousness in Bacteria

Panpsychism is an answer of the fact that you cannot explain it, and thereby say it's irreducible. They suspect that consciousness needs to be made fundamental. And if consciousness is a fundamental property of matter, then you end up with a version of panpsychism. But I don't think that it's a step that's magical," says Hawking. "As you change your organization and make it more complex so that you're able to look at stuff from more perspectives at once, you start to build progressively more complicated systems"

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