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Panpsychism: Is Everything Conscious? - Dr Philip Goff, PhD

The Weekend University

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The Wave Function Determines How Particles Feel Involved

On this view, particles are never compelled to act, but are rather disposed to respond rationally to the character of their experience. The idea would be these conscious urges exist in a very crude form at the fundamental level with particles and that the character of those yearnings are determined by the wave function. Particles don't have rational deliberation, so the thought is that they are inevitably going to respond with the most basic rational impulse: do what you feel like doing.

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