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25 | David Chalmers on Consciousness, the Hard Problem, and Living in a Simulation

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Problem With Panpsychism

I've explored a number of different positive views on consciousness what I haven't done is committed to to any of them. The idea that consciousness goes right down to the bottom of the natural order of pan psychism and it's basically saying everything has a mind taken literally would imply that you know people have minds particles have minds but also tables and numbers have minds so do we have to say have minds or can we just get away with saying something like have mental properties as well as physical ones? If that makes you feel better it might be a little bit better yeah have experiences because hey there's something it's like to be themWell I don't know I mean do we want to say an electron

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