Panpsychism
Philip Goff · 2019
"Consciousness is not an illusion generated by complex brains; it is a fundamental property of all physical matter in the universe."
Science can explain the physical mechanics of the brain, but it cannot explain why those mechanics are accompanied by the subjective feeling of being alive (the 'Hard Problem'). Panpsychism argues that we can't explain it because we have the equation backward.
Instead of assuming that dead, unconscious matter somehow magically generates consciousness when arranged in a complex enough structure (like a human brain), panpsychism proposes that consciousness is a fundamental feature of the universe, just like mass, charge, and spin.
How does Panpsychism solve the 'Hard Problem' of consciousness?
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