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Denyse O'Leary
Date
May 17, 2024

Categorized
Human exceptionalism, Media, Panpsychism, Science

Tagged
Daniel Dennett (on conscious AI), Edward Feser on eliminative materialism, eliminative materialism, Illusionism, Keith Frankish (consciousness as illusion), Michael Tye}

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} _{Denyse O'Leary
May 17, 2024

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Human exceptionalism, Media, Panpsychism, Science}

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.

No Materialist Theory of Consciousness Is Plausible

_{All such theories either deny the very thing they are trying to explain, result in absurd scenarios, or end up requiring an immaterial intervention} _{Eric Holloway
July 30, 2019

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Philosophy of Mind}

Consciousness is the biggest problem for materialism. How is it possible that a bunch of particles that are devoid of consciousness get together and cause consciousness?