Philosopher Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes Ponders Panpsychism And Psychedelics Episode #228
Mind Escape
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Aristotle and the Plant Consciousness
Early panpsychism was quite prevailing throughout ancient greece. And i think one reason for people thinking of this as er er, kind of a little bit crazy is that we have this neuro essentialist default belief in the west. In other words, there's a belief that the brain is sufficient and necessary for consciousness or for mentality. But it's really hard to prove it empirically. You can't prove that a plant hasn't has or has not got consciousness. It would be even questionable whether it can be, you know, at all. Er, why has this come about? Well, i mean, the classic stories that decar galileo first of all, and then
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