On 9/8/2019 3:51 AM, Philip Thrift wrote:
On Sunday, September 8, 2019 at 5:40:55 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote:
> On 7 Sep 2019, at 07:14, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
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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
<http://consc.net/papers/panpsychism.pdf>
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> Zero predictive power and it's not clear that it's consistent
with the rest of neurophysics.
+ zero explanation power at all, also.
Bruno
But panpsychism more explanatory than consciousness from numbers.
No it isn't. It's just a label. Numbers at least can have complex
relations.
Brent
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