(January 24, 2019 at 9:57 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: That makes the evolution of mind make sense how, and how...... particularly....compared to some other explanation?
It removes the problem of supervenience of unlike properties-- qualia is not like physical material, and no properties of physical material can so far as we know be sensibly mapped to qualia.
In a panpsychic world view, consciousness is elemental, and it is the FORMS which it may collectively take which make something like human perception.
Quote:Putting something on a pedestal isn't an explanation at all, nor does it make anything make more sense..it's just putting something on a pedestal. Meanwhile, it appears to be factually untrue. Mind does not seem to occupy any elemental position whatsoever. I'm not seeing the allure.
Mind doesn't seem to be anything at all, except the capacity to subjectively experience.
