Perhaps sociovirology is an instance of the slow creep of panpsychism in the sciences. But it is early days yet to be sure.
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The debate will surely continue but it’s remarkable that it’s even HELD at Scientific American. Wasn’t materialism supposed to have disproved free will by now?
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To suppose that unthinking processes can somehow produce a thinking entity as an illusion is a sheer act of faith — faith in materialism but faith nonetheless.
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Given that human consciousness is a Hard Problem in philosophy, we can expect useful discussions to follow — but also a good deal of silliness.
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If we grasp the psychological role that the belief that we live in a sim universe plays, it’s easier to see why it persists in the absence of evidence.
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A 2024 study suggests that T. rex was only as smart as a crocodile, not a chimp. That might seems like a comedown — except that crocs are fairly sharp.
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Panpsychism is very much a materialist theory. It avoids absurdity by admitting that human consciousness is real — but then tries to make it part of nature.
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This idea, which can be placed along the panpsychism spectrum, risks making climate issues a religion and will cast specifically human rights into doubt.
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It’s useful to know that this sort of fact-free performance is acceptable, given the state of a materialist interpretation of consciousness today.
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The story highlights once again, the way X (Twitter) is one of the few important social media to resist government censorship.
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Apart from demoting evolution, “consciousness first” is yet another attempt to naturalize consciousness by making it a basic origin of life process.
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It’s hard to understand why anyone would doubt that irrelevant messaging from cell phones is a distraction for a student who is trying to learn a concept.
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We can’t read the thoughts of the dead who left no decipherable writings but we can study the workings of the human mind from remarkably long ago.
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It will be interesting to see whether other orangutans in the area begin to imitate their new neighbor in using chewed akar kuning leaves to treat wounds.
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Mathematics underlies our entire universe at its most basic level. Correct answers conform to reality. The war on 2 + 2 = 4 is just plain doomed.
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The “hippie ape,” it turns out, is yet another product of the human imagination; the bonobo is an animal in nature. It’s best not to confuse the two.
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There is much evidence to suggest that the human mind is immaterial and immateriality is one of the characteristics of things that do not die.
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Who will assume Dennett’s role as the leading, world-famous Darwinian materialist philosopher? Will the position remain — tellingly — vacant?
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In a discussion at Psychology Today, a philosopher notes that her dissertation supporting the reality of near-death experiences was received without hostility.
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When one of the world’s most prominent research neuroscientists goes off the classic materialist script — and gets away with it — things are changing.
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