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Is There a Conscious Attraction?
I want to see if this can be extended one step further because it seems like the limiting factor here might be life but what is it that's special about life? Hypothetically if you're a panpsychist, a panpsychists believes that everything is conscious. How is detecting a positive or negative charge that life needs to sustain itself different from like magnetism? I don't really know what to say about single-celled organisms. Some of them look like they're making decisions. It's active engagement that's shaped by a history and shaped by the current demands on self-regulation.