ash spidersone day in the future panpsychism will be seen as so obviously correct among the scientific that everyone will look back at this time like its the dark ages of the study of conciousness
"i won't consider such a theory, it's too subjective and unscientific" says some cognitive scientists, that is to say, guys who literally STUDY SUBJECTIVITY??
like i get not everyone is spicy enough like me to be an animist but panpsychism, for ppl who have confined themselves to a "scientific rational worldview" (whatever) , is just so elegant and obviously true. what is more likely, that conciousness is this bizarre super rare thing that you need neurons, and only neurons in the right way to experience, and nobody can ever figure out what it is or even adequately define it, or that conciousness is just what it is to be, and the shape of being determines how the conciousness feels "on the inside"?
what is more likely, that every body in the universe moves in bizarre extremely convoluted twisty orbits around a geocentric earth? or that everything moves in elegant elipsoids and parabolas and hyperbolas?
until anthropocentric scientists learn they are not the epistemological center of the universe, they will keep moving the goal posts in new and bizarre ways
and also the "combination problem" of panpsychism is a complete non-issue born of individualist brainrot. i bet most plural systems, especially median plurals, have no real trouble understanding the resolution of the "combination problem". and if you are a creature awake to the entangled nature of reality and don't see yourself as fully separable from the 'other', it's even easier, and the more you think about it the more fascinating and deep the way conciousness combines goes. but of COURSE scientists, who push anyone out of their field who's too "crazy" or "lacks objectivity" (again, in a field about studying subjectivity and emotions??) can't comprehend what anyone who'se made it thru Plurality Kindergarten understands.
i know i get worked up about it but it's just depressing how seemingly 99% of cultures agree conciousness goes beyond humans, goes beyond animals, can be found in all sorts of non-human places, but the 1% that said "no, it does't :)" happened to take over the world, and weaponized anthropocentrism to destroy and exploit everything and everyone and drive us all into collapse on the basis of "the Other isn't real in the way i'm real"
like we should all be able to agree that factory farming and animal testing and the indescribably horrific violence to our earth that is mining, and damming rivers, and clearing old growth forests, and extracting absolutely everything, is bad and evil. but as soon as the Other isn't as real as you and you can safely remove consideration of them as an ethical "person" whose fate is bound with yours, it frees you up to do whatever icarian things you want with no* consequences
we think cognitive anthropocentrism is very related to colonial ideology, and also ableism/sanism, and other kinds of oppression. this all encompassing belief that the Other is not worth considering, that their voice is not worth hearing, that they are lesser than you, that because they think differently than you, they can be safely dismissed, or turned into a commodity, or something to exploit
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