RE: Panpsychism is not as crazy as it sounds.
April 5, 2014 at 10:42 pm
(This post was last modified: April 5, 2014 at 10:46 pm by Chas.)
Yes, actually it is.
It is pretty bat shit.
You have this pretty much backwards, or inside out.
"Collapse of the wave function" simple means going from probabilistic to known. There is no physical event, no thing that collapses.
It is the knowledge of a conscious observer that changes. There is no evidence the the table is a conscious observer.
It is pretty bat shit.
(April 5, 2014 at 9:46 pm)Heywood Wrote:(April 5, 2014 at 9:15 pm)tor Wrote: Is my table conscious?
In a certain sense your table is observant. A photon that hits it will it in a particular place. For that to happen an "observation" has to be made to collapse the wave function.
You have this pretty much backwards, or inside out.
"Collapse of the wave function" simple means going from probabilistic to known. There is no physical event, no thing that collapses.
It is the knowledge of a conscious observer that changes. There is no evidence the the table is a conscious observer.
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Science is not a subject, but a method.
