(April 6, 2014 at 12:23 am)Alex K Wrote: Putting aside my difficulties in defining consciousness in the first place, I found the panpsychism thing compelling for a while. An observational fact which led me to discard the idea again is how easily we lose consciousness. For it to be present, the brain has to function very well, and minor disturbances such as interference from chemicals or electricity lets us lose it. This to me points to consciousness as an emergent phenomenon of feedback circuits i.e. your first category. If consciousness were somehow a deep property of the matter I am made of, I would not expect it to kick the bucket only because there's some C2H5OH around.
If this is not an argument against panpsychism in your sense, I'd be gratetful if you explained where I go wrong.
Mental states can be forgotten. The C2H5OH impaired your ability to process the mental states into long-term memory.
