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“Physics gives us formal descriptions of the statistical patterns evident in energetic activity. Physicalists then turn around and pretend these abstractions can explain away the very experience from which they were abstracted. That’s not physics anymore, it’s (bad) metaphysics.”
—David Seagall, Against Physicalism's Misplaced Concreteness
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Against Physicalism's Misplaced Concreteness

On Whitehead's Process-Relational Panexperientialism

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May 10 at 5:26pmWeb
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“First, modern science methodologically excluded subjectivity, feeling, value, and purpose from its picture of nature in order to make possible mathematical prediction and control of the ideally isolated systems left after the strip search. Then, having forgotten the methodological character of this exclusion, science finds itself asking with great puzzlement how subjectivity, feeling, value, and purpose could ever have arisen in the universe.”
—David Seagall, Against Physicalism's Misplaced Concreteness
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