On 5/16/2019 6:29 AM, Philip Thrift wrote:
You still need to explain why your elbow isn't conscious.
Brent
The elbow (the matter that is halfway down your arm between your
shoulder and hand) could have proto-consciousness (or a
proto-experientiality, as some say):
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/panpsychism/#PanpVersPanp
But the elbow will not have full consciousness (first-person)
because* it cannot do information processing* (at the level of the
brain with all its neural connectivity).
*High-level (and higher-order) information processing is necessary,
but not sufficient for consciousness.*
That is all of panpsychism in a nutshell.
But then "panpyschism" does no work. It's just a hypothetical property
of matter that says if some matter does information processing then that
matter is conscious, otherwise it's not. But that's already what
materialists thought.
Brent
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