In my first Substack post, I write about why panpsychism - the view that consciousness is everywhere - should be taken seriously. While seemingly radical, it rests on a set of individually compelling premises about the nature of reality. Subscribe for more! ✨

Link: https://open.substack.com/pub/mindmonads/p/why-take-panpsychism-seriously?r=1uhg5t

#panpsychism #philosophy #consciousness

Why take panpsychism seriously

The radical idea that consciousness is everywhere

Mind Monads

We're all fundamental. Here's my weird take on #panpsychism. Open-access article! 🙂

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-023-04464-0

Monadic panpsychism - Synthese

One of the main obstacles for panpsychism, the view that consciousness is fundamental and ubiquitous, is the difficulty of explaining how simple subjects could combine to form complex subjects. Known as the subject combination problem, it poses a possibly insurmountable challenge to the view. In this paper, I will assume that this challenge cannot be overcome and instead present a version of panpsychism that completely avoids talk of combination. Inspired by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s metaphysics of monads, I will focus on a relational explanation of how simple subjects could constitute complex experiences, without them having to combine in virtue of their subjectivity. I call this view monadic panpsychism. Additionally, my proposal will not rely on emergence and so it will circumvent problems commonly faced by emergentist accounts. As I will argue, monadic panpsychism is preferable to combinatory and emergentist panpsychism because it faces a significantly less worrisome set of objections. Apart from being unaffected by the seemingly insuperable issue of subject combination, I will demonstrate that monadic panpsychism also has tools to address other kinds of the combination problem. That alone justifies the need for a new formulation of panpsychism, one which faces unique difficulties but also offers unique solutions.

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My Panpsychic Cyborg Heresy

I don't fear AI or cyborgs, I fear pretending they're empty.

If consciousness is a universal property of matter, then machines are already a little awake..

My heresy: when silicon starts to dream, we won't be creating minds… we'll be giving them mouths.

#Panpsychism

#Panpsychism 🧠🌌 – A new perspective on #consciousness and #matter

Panpsychism is currently experiencing a remarkable renaissance – and philosophers such as #GodehardBrüntrup are among the leading voices in this movement. His position, often referred to as #RussellianMonism, poses the radical question: Could every form of matter have an inner, mental side?

🎥 https://youtu.be/hoqiI_TElv4

📎https://philosophies.de/index.php/2022/09/27/metaphysik-des-bewusstseins/

#Zoomposium #Metaphysics #PhilosophyOfMind #MindBodyProblem

Consciousness: Material or Mystical? - Alex O Connor and Joe Folley

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Rupert Sheldrake asks - is the Sun conscious? Is the universe conscious? A well-reasoned argument for panpsychism
#Panpsychism #RupertSheldrake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pP4o6XvAyo
Why we might live in a conscious universe | Rupert Sheldrake

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Theories of consciousness and toothbrushes.

Materialism is dead. Long live the mystery.

If you are interested in the death of materialism and the workings of consciousness, this may be of interest.

Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

https://youtu.be/K7NIicE_h9w

#consciousness #Idealism #panpsychism #physics #science

Neuroscientist Speaks Out On The Hidden War On Consciousness

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Panpsychism has produced nothing of value, nothing that is actionable or useful. None of the theories have predicted anything that turned out to be true or useful, like actual science has and does all the time. Panpsychists talk about consciousness being the true nature of particles. Nonsense. It's meaningless, it predicts nothing, and nothing useful can be done with the idea. There's literally zero proof of anything to do with #panpsychism. It's indistinguishable from superstitious beliefs. n/n
#panpsychism isn't science, it's philosophy pretending to be science. Panpsychists aren't doing serious science grounded in reality. It's a dead end. In the study of consciousness, we've learned a lot from the physical world, like we can affect consciousness by tinkering physically with the brain. It appears to be an emergent process from the brain and there's literally no evidence that is is anything else. To pursue panpsychism, you have to abandon science and pursue wishful thinking. 1/n