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| Feb 24, 2018 at 18:00 | comment | added | Yechiam Weiss | @FrankHubeny thanks. I've read Chalmers' Idealism and the Mind-body Problem which summed up some of those nicely, I'll definitely read Skrbina. | |
| Feb 24, 2018 at 17:38 | comment | added | Frank Hubeny | @YechiamWeiss David Skrbina's Panpsychism in the West provides a survey of the ideas and philosophers. | |
| Feb 24, 2018 at 17:15 | comment | added | Yechiam Weiss | @FrankHubeny correct, I just read an article in relation to panpsychism, and for every little specific distinction, there's a philosopher who built an entire theory around that. It's funny, but it's very important work. | |
| Feb 24, 2018 at 15:35 | comment | added | Frank Hubeny | @Veedrac It is good to note that panpsychism needs to distinguish between what has agency and what doesn't. There will be different theories based on what the theory claims has agency. One can cover up that agency by talking about randomness as the graphic story that you linked said, "classical events have probabilities and quantum events have amplitudes". There are multiple ways to build a theory on data. The most data can do is attempt to falsify a theory and even then a theory's supporters can modify it to slip out of a falsification. | |
| Feb 24, 2018 at 13:51 | comment | added | Veedrac | Panpsychism, absurd as it is, at least does not presume everything has physical agency. And on the topic of quantum mechanics, one must certainly avoid the trap of quantum mechanics and consciousness are both weird and therefore equivalent. | |
| Feb 20, 2018 at 18:40 | history | answered | Frank Hubeny | CC BY-SA 3.0 |