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198. Bernardo Kastrup on the Nature of Reality: Materialism, Idealism, or Skepticism

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Is There a Reductionism in the History of Science?

I agree with the conclusion. I i would take exception with e beating reductionism. We're never going to solve it. It's not like one more narro science experiment or theory is going to have the answer. Constitutive panpsychism, i think, is physically incoherent because it makes this naive assumption that sub atomic particles are actually little bodies delineated in space. But that's just a metaphor. And if you really understand what sub atomic particles are, then then constitutive panpsychism becomes incoherent. It doesn't work. Thatw that turn in the history of science in that direction has led us to this hard problem of consciousness that really is kind of misconfig

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