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#892 Philip Ball - The Book of Minds: How to Understand Ourselves and Other Beings

The Dissenter

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Defining Minds: From Subjective Experience to Panpsychism

This chapter explores the concept of minds and the need for a proper definition to understand how they work. The speaker discusses the idea of mindedness as a multi-dimensional concept, with degrees of possessing a mind. They propose a loose definition of a mind as something that has a subjective experience. They also mention panpsychism, the idea that all matter has a degree of mindedness, and discuss its resurgence in recent years.

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