Consciousness All the Way Down? (Robert Wright & Bernardo Kastrup)
Robert Wright's Nonzero
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What Is It Like to Be the Universe Before Life Existed?
i think there has always been something. It is like to be the universe, even before life existed. And and if you could go back in time to a point before life arose, and look at the universe. You would see a material, what we call colloquially, a material or physical universe. Now, is this a variant pan psychism? Then there's something you have in common with pan psychists. But are you a panpsychist or again? So panpsychists think that there is some degree of consciousness, porsentience, or something associated with every physical thing,. Are they? What's the relationship between you and them? Very little. Surprisingly little.
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