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"Substance" is not "stuff"? This is interesting. Could you explain that a bit more?
March 28, 2022 at 23:43
it reifies it by installing the dualism within each bit of objective reality. When someone gets a moment, would you mind explaining this like you're e...
March 28, 2022 at 23:18
Oh, btw, just for reference, here is an article talking about quantum stuff being in two places at one time. I think it may have bearing on the topic ...
March 28, 2022 at 22:57
Hmmm. Information is fundamental. But wouldn't there still need to be a mind to to "know" this information, as well as to "know how" to execute it?
March 28, 2022 at 22:51
Unless all matter and space in the universe foreknew in some sense...like it somehow has the ability to communicate regardless of what shape it ultima...
March 28, 2022 at 22:36
Panpsychism does not propose that quarks are in themselves conscious or neurons are conscious but that the 'ingredients' of consciousness exist natura...
March 28, 2022 at 22:26
Panpsychism doesn’t solve the hard problem, it reifies it by installing the dualism within each bit of objective reality. -Joshs Would you mind rephra...
March 28, 2022 at 22:19
It has been said that panpsychism solves the hard problem of consciousness. I can sort of understand that. If the hard problem of consciousness involv...
March 28, 2022 at 22:11
I've never understood Schrödinger's cat. You put a cat and poison in a box, and at some point, the cat will be alive and dead at the same time. Can yo...
March 07, 2022 at 11:43
Thanks for taking a stab at that. I just made that term up. Sometimes phrases will come to mind that I think hold some key to further understanding. I...
March 07, 2022 at 11:39
Does the term skeuomorphic ontology mean anything to you? Any sense can be applied to both of these words. Or rather, if such a concept were valid in ...
March 06, 2022 at 20:15
I was thinking perhaps it would be true (or false for that matter) if you just stopped and didn't ask the next question in the infinite regression tha...
March 05, 2022 at 16:46
Is there any evidence that other organs contribute to the totality of consciousness, like the heart for instance? This seems to be an accepted idea in...
March 05, 2022 at 04:51
The liar's paradox of 'this statement is false' can be true within a particular instant of time. What does the above mean, anyone? I've pondered the l...
March 05, 2022 at 04:51
Quick question here: Is nothing the same as non-existence? When you say that something came from nothing, are you saying that existence came from non-...
March 04, 2022 at 14:47
Hello. Quick question here. First post here in the forum btw: How will science know what it is like to be something? How will science objectively know...
March 03, 2022 at 12:58