I'm Open to Ghosts

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When you get down to the basics, the fundamentals of reality, it is so odd and confusing and weird that a i think that i do end up being a mysterian about this stuff. My concern is that we just won't know when we don't know, like we we won't know the limits of our knowing. Thost is, why yet, this is part of why i'm open to ghosts. Because, like, sometimes you're just motton bailey about it all the times. All i ever mean is that ghosts is a construct in the way that you talk about them, like there's no evidence for them. But i don't see what the benefit is of having

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."