In the same way that i get frustrated with materialists who say, when you see red, that just is this combination of brain states, or something like that. To start talking to me about conscious electrons doesn't do that either. And so it's true, the solution just is, he anto ers both. They actually have zero commitment to any, like, a universalist sort of consciousness. It may be as a little more satisfying to me, and that i am uncomfortable at there being any logical contradiction to begin with. But it seems like, in some ways, i would rather sit with the discomfort of knowing that something fascinatingly experiential arises out of non experient
It’s the topic voted on by our beloved Patreon patrons, panpsychism! David and Tamler delve into the resurgent debate over whether consciousness is the fundamental stuff that makes up the universe. We hoped we might be entering Miyazaki land - river spirits, benevolent radishes, a universal mind. But is this just the same old philosophy of mind debate with different words? Are there any stakes to this debate or is it purely terminological? Plus – we answer some last-minute questions from listeners on dissertations, Ukraine, pseudoscience, and the music from "The Shield."
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