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51: On Consciousness | Annaka Harris

The After On Podcast

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What Is Panpsychism?

Soh: I'm currently split down the middle, that consciousness is the more fundamental feature of matter or of the universe itself. This is under the umbrella term of panpsychism, which has got a terrible branding problem to teible branding problem. And so i take this category of theories very seriously now, and i would love to find a new name for it. Soh: Is it possible that just two states, the two states that a thermistat is measuring, could those have experiences associated with them? There's something that it is like to be a thermista? Yes, it sounds crazy.

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