CategoryPanpsychism
Does a “Spiritual Particle” Explain Human Consciousness?
The Hard Problem of Consciousness Remains Inescapable
Neuroscientist Francisco Aboitiz starts by offering to tell us how consciousness evolved but then makes a critical concession
Philosopher Hollers Whoa! Are Plants Really Conscious?
Pigliucci worries about the claim. But if human consciousness 1) exists and 2) is fully natural, some scientists would of course argue that plants share it
If Materialism Is Failing, What Replaces It Might Not Be Better
If panpsychism prevails, we may need to get used to the politics of Insect Rights and of Rocks' Lives Matter. Also, panpsychists may have little of consequence to say about freedom of thought
Nobel Prize Physicist Thinks Consciousness Must Underlie Universe
Brian Josephson, after whom the Josephson effect in electronics is named, hopes to find the answer to the conundrum of consciousness in biology
Researchers: Living Cells’ Cognition Drives Evolution
“Natural selection is cognitive selection,” they say, arguing that cells exhibit meaning and purpose, contrary to Darwinian evolution theories
Programmer: AI could certainly become conscious
From Casper Wilstrup's perspective, we can't demonstrate that anything is NOT conscious so creating conscious AI is simply a matter of using the scientific method
Rocks’ Lives Matter: The Political Face of “Everything Is Conscious”
When it comes to rights, just being human is becoming much less of an advantage
How a Chemist Came To Think That All Life Forms Are Conscious
Emeritus professor of chemistry Addy Pross explains the reasoning process: A universal Darwinism can generate cognition in chemistry
Is Panpsychism Putting Francis Crick’s Pack of Neurons to Flight?
Science writer John Horgan remembers Crick in the ‘90s when reductionism was riding high in neuroscience. What’s happened since?
Why Panpsychism (Everything Is Conscious) Is Gaining Ground
Many life forms do unexpectedly remarkable things. It is simpler to broaden the circle of consciousness than to keep on trying to prove that human consciousness is just an illusion
Evolutionary Biologist Defines Goldenrod Plant as “Intelligent”
The media release for the journal paper, sponsored by Cornell University, illustrates the growing comfort of science with panpsychist (everything is conscious) ideas
A Darwinian Biologist Winces at Bees That Have Feelings
The problem Jerry Coyne has with Lars Chittka’s evidence for emotions among bees points to a growing conflict between naturalism and panpsychism in science
If We Doubt That Plants Have Minds, Are We “Soul-Blind”?
The concept of “plant mind” as a trend in science — a trend consistent with growing panpsychism— has begun to worry some researchers
From a Philosopher: Philosophy of Consciousness Is “Bizarre”
Eric Schwitzgebel admits to his host at Closer to Truth that “every single view in the history of the philosophy of mind is bizarre”…
Can Viruses Cheat? Cooperate? That’s What Sociovirologists Claim
What does it mean to say that a defective string of genes’s behavior could be self-defeating? Or self-preserving? Where did the “self” come in?
Panpsychism Going Mainstream in Popular Media?
Significantly, Hawkins does not try to privilege conventional “consciousness is an illusion” over panpsychism (“everything is conscious”). He treats the two views equally
Gaia Reborn? New Climate Book Sees Earth as Living Entity
The Gaia hypothesis, pioneered by Lynn Margulis and James Lovelock was once ridiculed but Ferris Jabr thinks we should take it seriously to fight climate change