The Popular Position of Panpsychism and Its Philosophical Implications

Panpsychism is gaining popularity as a belief that consciousness is inherent in everything, akin to fundamental properties like mass or charge. While appealing for positing consciousness as universal, it fails to provide explanatory power or testable hypotheses. In contrast, materialism views consciousness as a natural property of material things like brains and bodies, leading to testable theories and enabling the explanation of consciousness-related phenomena over time.