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I think that's a compliment. Monism and dualism are bad, triadism is good.

This is classic Apo. Perfect specimen.

Half of us have no idea what Apo is talking about. He (it must be a he) regularly gets asked to put his stuff in more laymen's terms, but he never doe...

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I'll be especially on the lookout for fallacies of composition and division now.

You're every welcome, thanks for asking.

I like this bit. Wanking should be appreciated more for its cosmic significance.

Not all panpsychists claim that everything has a mind, some claim only that where there is anything, there is consciousness also, i.e. the smallists m...

I'm not very well read at the moment, sorry. I haven't kept up that well with developments. There are two camps (among others) among panpsychists IIRC...

For me, it means any arbitrarily defined object whatever, for example, half-a-biscuit-kilo-of-air-over-Brazil-rock-on-Mars considered as one thing. Th...

Yes, but only if you're making an inference. Simply holding the position that both parts and the whole of, say, a plank, simultaneously have their own...

I'll take a look at that, thanks. I'm a Goff fan. He's done very good work on why emergence is problematic with regard to consciousness.

It's fine as long as you wear a mask and maintain a 2m distance from the people you are with.

Not me. Some panpsychists might be motivated by quantum theory, but I'm not sure who.

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Is this intended to be an argument against panspychism? EDIT: My bad, it's an answer to the OP!

Good question. The answer presumably is "Because I am me and no on else is." This raises the further question, "Why am I this one and not some other o...

This is the best answer to the OP so far.

Your questions are all good ones and need answers from the panpsychist. If panpsychists are anthropomorphic, everyone else is anthropocentric, or at l...

Yes, I think panpsychism is often arrived at after a process of elimination. The worst theory apart from all the others.

The fallacies of division and composition are likely to be straw men, because no panpsychist I am aware of thinks that humans are conscious simply bec...

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That's good isn't it?

I think it's a lot to do with conceptual difficulties around the emergence of consciousness from what has been presumed to be severally non-conscious ...

Whereas for me the goal is to traumatise schoolchildren.

How do y'all think Bernie would have done? Would it have been this close?

Very close. Looks like Ar-Pharazon the Golden may be on the way out.

As Melkor stole Elves and corrupted them into Orcs, so biologists took the concept of life and removed all subjectivity from it. Can't bear the bugger...

Apparently I know that. But how do I know it?

jorndoe, what's wrong, if anything, with the response that from God's point of view, there is no evil? That preserves all the omnis and there is no co...

I agree. Read it again.

It's all good to God. Disease, vaccines, suffering, stopping suffering, all of it's fine.

The OP isn't nonsense EDIT: admittedly it isn't crystal clear and concise, but that's hard to do

You've thought about everything haven't you? You must be a brain in a vat or something, fed on royal jelly.

David Bohm (physicist) talked about a similar thing. He called it the 'rheomode' I think. From 'Wholeness and the Implicate Order'. I don't have any s...

It has long been a rather intense recurring fantasy of mine to have, instead of my silly thin cold skin, a nice thick coat of greasy fur like a seal. ...

I'd like to hear @Hanover's thoughts on this.

This is good. If God is incapable of pain, then yes, his POV on morality will lack a component that is crucial to ours. The relativist theist does not...

Perhaps because suffering is morally irrelevant from God's POV.

I'm going to rudely put words in your mouth as I am more likely to understand them that way. How do you feel about the following recasting: Your posit...

Thanks, this is interesting. It seems to me that that is consistent with metal-ethical relativism. FWIW, I share these terminal goals. However I don't...

Indeed no. You are right to point out this problem with my analogy which is so in-apt I wish I hadn't used it. Matter of course admits of quantity, wh...

Great question! :) My view is the exact inverse of Gnomon's (if I have read them correctly). Our identity is constituted by all those processes, and w...

Where where? Hear hear! I've listened to quite a few JP vids, interviews and whatnot. I'm no expert on him. I agreed with some of the stuff he said, d...

I didn't think you were religious Banno.

@Shawn, you could try asking the question again.

Ditto most of the comments, but I'm also sympathetic to the OP. Stoicism can easily seem trite and a justification of oppression. It might be helpful ...

Yeah he was annoying.

Indeed, you put that better than I was about to do. Not everyone will be happy with collapsing the distinction like this, and in characterising others...

Getting other people to do what you want them to do. As a panpsychist, I might go as far as to say that reality (the way the world is) is at bottom, n...