On Saturday, September 7, 2019 at 10:34:02 AM UTC-5, Brent wrote:
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> On 9/6/2019 10:54 PM, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List wrote:
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> On 9/6/2019 9:51 PM, Philip Thrift wrote:
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> > I would put "Horganism" another way.
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> > Science tells stories/theories, and some are successful in their
> > application. But we don't know if any of the stories are the final
> > ones to be told, or even close to being final. (They probably are
> > not.) There is no settled story of gravity yet, much less
> > consciousness. One reads about a new story of gravity in science news
> > every week, it seems.
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> > David Chalmers' conclusion is ...
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> > "I think that the Hegelian [dialectical] argument gives good reason to
> > take both panpsychism and panprotopsychism very seriously. If we can
> > find a reasonable solution to the combination problem for either, this
> > view would immediately become the most promising solution to the
> > mind–body problem. So the combination problem deserves serious and
> > sustained attention."
> > - http://consc.net/papers/panpsychism.pdf
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> The trouble with panpsychism is that it doesn't buy you anything. There's
> still the question of why am I not conscious under anesthesia? And do I
> really believe rocks are conscious?...no, we'll say they have
> "proto-consciousness". But once you introduce a concept like
> proto-consciousness, why attribute it to everything. Why not just say
> nerves have proto-consciousness, when they are functional.
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> Brent
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The latter is along the lines of
https://petergodfreysmith.com/
<https://petergodfreysmith.com/biographical>
who is an advocate of *biopsychism*. I assume there is a *chemopsychism*.
Then *micropsychism* is lower. Of course there is *cosmopsychism* too.
@philipthrift
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