Why Is Science Growing Comfortable with Panpsychism (“Everything Is Conscious”)?
At one time, the idea that “everything is conscious” was the stuff of jokes. Not any more, it seemsA recent article at New Scientist treats panpsychism as a serious idea in science. That’s thanks to the growing popularity of neuroscientist Giulio Tonioni’s Integrated Information Theory (IIT), which offers the opportunity for mathematical modeling, along with the implication that inanimate matter and/or the universe may be conscious. If IIT continues to gain a sympathetic hearing, panpsychism could become, over time, a part of normal science.
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