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Panpsychism is not as crazy as it sounds.

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Panpsychism is not as crazy as it sounds.
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RE: Panpsychism is not as crazy as it sounds.
April 5, 2014 at 10:23 pm (This post was last modified: April 5, 2014 at 10:23 pm by Heywood.)
(April 5, 2014 at 10:09 pm)MindForgedManacle Wrote: Sure, the relevant quantum systems interact, which is what "observation" means in the language game of quantum mechanics. If you're trying to press that any further you're equivocating on the word "observation".

The only further I would go would be to say the photon/table system isn't conscious but it is computational. Something is inputed, something is outputted and in the process something is changed. Consciousness is probably an emergent property of computations. The table/photon system isn't conscious but could be part of a larger more complex system that is conscious.
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RE: Panpsychism is not as crazy as it sounds. - by tor - April 5, 2014 at 9:15 pm
RE: Panpsychism is not as crazy as it sounds. - by tor - April 5, 2014 at 9:48 pm
RE: Panpsychism is not as crazy as it sounds. - by tor - April 5, 2014 at 10:02 pm
RE: Panpsychism is not as crazy as it sounds. - by Heywood - April 5, 2014 at 10:23 pm
RE: Panpsychism is not as crazy as it sounds. - by Chas - April 5, 2014 at 10:42 pm
RE: Panpsychism is not as crazy as it sounds. - by tor - April 6, 2014 at 10:50 am
RE: Panpsychism is not as crazy as it sounds. - by Alex K - April 6, 2014 at 12:23 am
RE: Panpsychism is not as crazy as it sounds. - by Chas - May 15, 2014 at 11:04 pm

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