Francois Kammerer and Luke Roelofs: Illusionism or Panpsychism?
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The Dualist Position on Subjectivity
If you think that this subjective aspect is both real and irreducible to anything purely objective, then I think it's natural to be led to some sort of dualism. There must be something going on in me as a human being that is fundamentally different to what's going on in all these other material objects. And so that's the dualist position, which I think has to kind of sacrifice or go against the unity revealed by natural science. The physicalist position has to sacrifice or deny the immediate evidence of our own awareness of being conscious. That's panpsychism: You reject that common assumption between physicalist and dualists that most of the material furniture of the universe is utterly
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