Tag: Electrons

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 30, 2023

Categorized
Media, Science, Social Media

Tagged
Electrons, Philip Goff, Sabine Hossenfelder}

Hossenfelder vs Goff: Debate About Electrons Sparks Social Media!

_{The public has not suddenly become interested in whether electrons exist. Rather, more people are using new media for an increasingly broad array of purposes.} _{Denyse O'Leary
November 30, 2023

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Media, Science, Social Media}

A classic top-down discussion is now taking place on X, an intrinsically bottom-up platform — broadening access while threatening former gatekeepers.

Neurons electrical pulses. Interconnected neurons with electrical pulses.

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News
Date
May 9, 2021

Categorized
Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Science

Tagged
Consciousness, Daniel Dennett, Electrons, Galen Strawson, Keith Frankish, Panpsychism, Physics, Robert Wright}

How a Materialist Philosopher Argued His Way to Panpsychism

_{Galen Strawson starts with the one fact of which we are most certain — our own consciousness} _{News
May 9, 2021

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Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Science}

To Strawson, it makes more sense to say that consciousness is physical — and that electrons are conscious — than that consciousness is an illusion.

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News
Date
July 16, 2020

Categorized
Natural Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind, Science

Tagged
___longform, Bernardo Kastrup, Christof Koch, Consciousness, David Papineau, Electrons, Featured, Giulio Tononi, Johannes Kleiner, Michael Egnor, Sabine Hossenfelder, Tam Hunt}

At Nautilus: Electrons DO have a “rudimentary mind”

_{Panpsychists in science believe that nature is all there is but, they say, it includes consciousness as a fundamental fact of nature} _{News
July 16, 2020

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Natural Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind, Science}

Consciousness has traditionally been thought to correlate in some way with life but panpsychists in science are now challenging that view.

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News
Date
February 28, 2020

Categorized
Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
Bernardo Kastrup, Consciousness, Electrons, Michael Egnor, Panpsychism, Philip Goff, Physics, Sabine Hossenfelder}

Theoretical Physicist Slams Panpsychism

_{Electrons cannot be conscious, in Sabine Hossenfelder’s view, because they cannot change their behavior} _{News
February 28, 2020

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Philosophy of Mind}

Hossenfelder’s impatience is understandable but she underestimates the seriousness of the problem serious thinkers about consciousness confront.