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Galen Strawson on Panpsychism

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The Alternative to Experientiality

I suppose it could be a third way. You've assumed that either physical stuff gives rise to consciousness through some kind of magical leap and that's implausible or physical matter contains some kind of experiential property. But perhaps the third option is to say, well look, maybe we don't really have experience. It just seems that we do. Well, at that point I always say when people say things like that, which is that's the silliest view that anyone has ever held in the whole history of humanity. If there's one thing we know, it's the reality of consciousness, the reality of conscious experience.

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