i have a particular annoyance with the way a lot of psychologists and people who do knrow science. Some of my best friends, they like to just say that there sno problem there. And so when you try to push them on the hard problem, they say, it's not hard at all. Its just emerges. Just like liquidity might emerge from non liquid things, there is a new property that emerges. And this new property here is consciousness. It is a result of whatever neurons in particular network configurations. i think strasson rightfully points out that, no, there's, there's a little bit of cheating going on there. The miracle happened this way, but his miracle isn
It’s the topic voted on by our beloved Patreon patrons, panpsychism! David and Tamler delve into the resurgent debate over whether consciousness is the fundamental stuff that makes up the universe. We hoped we might be entering Miyazaki land - river spirits, benevolent radishes, a universal mind. But is this just the same old philosophy of mind debate with different words? Are there any stakes to this debate or is it purely terminological? Plus – we answer some last-minute questions from listeners on dissertations, Ukraine, pseudoscience, and the music from "The Shield."
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