Are You Trying to Deny Consciousness or Agentic Freedom?

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We might be tempted to deny consciousness or agentic freedom except for the fact that we feel like we have it, and it seems fundamental to our prience. So this is why we have to be open to something that seems at odds with, or at least completely unexplained by our current scientific understanding. You know, if there is just enough of a these experiences and enough testimony to these experiences, or if you have one of these experiences yourself, its like i think you would want to believe in them too.

Panpsychism didn't give us river spirits or mischievous sootballs, so this time we go straight to the source - a defense of animism, and in a top 10 analytic philosophy journal. Could a failed argument for the existence of God establish the existence of trees and mountains with “interiority” and “social characteristics”? Tamler wants to believe, but is the argument that'll push him over the edge?

Plus – speaking of top journals, a doozy of social psych article: Is forgiveness better than revenge at rehumanizing the self? Let's check the voodoo dolls to find out. Tamler is delighted by David’s reaction to this one.