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The New Science of Consciousness || Anil Seth

The Psychology Podcast

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The Problem With Panpsychism

I don't find panpsychism very appealing at all. I think that it's an easy kind of an easy out to the heart problem. If you're struggling to explain how it is that consciousness can be identical to or emerge from material stuff then, well, of course, you can just say, well, we don't have to explain that because it's everywhere in everything ubiquitous. But it doesn't really explain anything when you do that. It does a particular view generate Estible hypotheses that shed light on the phenomenon in question. And here, I think materialism has many resources to help us understand consciousness.

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