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The pros and cons of panpsychism

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  • The pros and cons of panpsychism

    I would like to have a debate on panpsychism. In this debate, I am taking the position that panpsychism is a true reality.

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    Y'all are just a part of my imagination and don't exist outside of me. It is a credit to the creativeness of my imagination that you don't remain static but have changed each time I call you up, and providing you with an incredibly realistic facsimile of memories of living an actual "life."

    That part amuses me immensely as it as resulted in the development of an artificial pseudo-cognizance.

    Oh well. Time to feed the squirrels.


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    I'm always still in trouble again

    "You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
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    • #3
      Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
      Y'all are just a part of my imagination and don't exist outside of me. It is a credit to the creativeness of my imagination that you don't remain static but have changed each time I call you up, and providing you with an incredibly realistic facsimile of memories of living an actual "life."

      That part amuses me immensely as it as resulted in the development of an artificial pseudo-cognizance.

      Oh well. Time to feed the squirrels.


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      What do you feed those things?

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      • #4
        Let me try a different way here. I am trying to understand why it is said that panpsychism explains the hard problem of consciousness. Maybe taking a stance that I believe it is not the best way, because I don't necessarily believe it. I don't understand it. I'm just seeing where the logic goes.

        How is panpsychism illogical and what implications does it carry with regard to anything. Just start somewhere and respond with your thoughts and we'll go from there.


        Or rather, let me start : consciousness is fundamental.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Machinist View Post
          Let me try a different way here. I am trying to understand why it is said that panpsychism explains the hard problem of consciousness. Maybe taking a stance that I believe it is not the best way, because I don't necessarily believe it. I don't understand it. I'm just seeing where the logic goes.

          How is panpsychism illogical and what implications does it carry with regard to anything. Just start somewhere and respond with your thoughts and we'll go from there.


          Or rather, let me start : consciousness is fundamental.
          That seems to be saying that anything with the capacity to think possessed consciousness. ... Maybe I'm misunderstanding something.
          1Cor 15:34 Come to your senses as you ought and stop sinning; for I say to your shame, there are some who know not God.
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          Scripture before Tradition:
          but that won't prevent others from
          taking it upon themselves to deprive you
          of the right to call yourself Christian.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by tabibito View Post

            That seems to be saying that anything with the capacity to think possessed consciousness. ... Maybe I'm misunderstanding something.
            Could you rephrase that?

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Machinist View Post

              Could you rephrase that?
              When/while something can think, it is conscious.

              Maybe consciousness has a different connotation in your presentation?
              1Cor 15:34 Come to your senses as you ought and stop sinning; for I say to your shame, there are some who know not God.
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              Scripture before Tradition:
              but that won't prevent others from
              taking it upon themselves to deprive you
              of the right to call yourself Christian.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by tabibito View Post

                When/while something can think, it is conscious.

                Maybe consciousness has a different connotation in your presentation?
                Yes, it has a different connotation. I'm not really sure how to explain it, but panpsychism is not about say, thinking rocks. Consciousness being fundamental means something else. If it were as silly as rocks, or atoms, or matter thinking, then it wouldn't have such momentum among physicists and philosophers today.


                What does it mean that consciousness is fundamental? As far as I can tell, it means that matter, or the substance that matter is composed of (probably what space itself is composed of) is consciousness. Since we don't know what consciousness is, how can we say that consciousness is not fundamental?

                If consciousness is not fundamental, what is fundamental? I'm trying to ask the right question here, in hopes of getting a creative response that may give a little more insight, which may in turn lead to a good discussion on panpsychism.

                Rouge posted something pretty cryptic above if you need something to draw on, if you can make sense of it. I can't tell if it's meant to be ironic or what.

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                • #9
                  How can something immaterial (thoughts, perceptions, experience, etc.) arise from something material (the brain). Why is there consciousness rather than unconsciousness? (Perhaps this is the same as asking why is there something rather than nothing?) Anyway, this is the hard problem of consciousness.

                  If we posit that consciousness is fundamental, then we're not crossing over than great a gulf when we say awareness arose from the living brain. In the current theory of emergence (in emergent dualism as well as materialism), you're crossing a chasm of kind. It says that this emergent property is not the same nature of the thing it emerged from.

                  In panpsychism, well, it's the same stuff. Consciousness arose from... consciousness. The consciousness of man would be of the same nature as the rest of the universe.

                  Now, does this really answer the question of the hard problem?

                  Anyway, if no one cares to discuss this philosophical concept on this forum, i'll leave it be.

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                  • #10
                    How did God create conscious beings? Maybe panpsychism could shed some light there. Because where did consciousness come from except from a conscious source.

                    In some sense, consciousness is fundamental.

                    Alright, i'll stop now.

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Machinist View Post
                      Alright, i'll stop now.
                      Yes, I don't want you to hurt yourself...

                      Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...

                      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s

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