RE: Panpsychism is not as crazy as it sounds.
May 16, 2014 at 2:12 pm
(This post was last modified: May 16, 2014 at 2:16 pm by Coffee Jesus.)
(May 16, 2014 at 10:39 am)Pickup_shonuff Wrote:(May 16, 2014 at 9:56 am)Coffee Jesus Wrote: I think it's nonsense and/or out of context.
That's where all schisms seem to take root, though. What context is the proper text to understand the relation between the subjective and the objective, mind and matter?
I called the quotes nonsense because they didn't make sense.
"The organism evokes knowledge of a past before it began, and of a future beyond its death. At the other pole, the universe would not have started, or manifested itself, unless it was at some time going to include organisms--just as current will not begin to flow from the positive end of a wire until the negative terminal is secure."
Language is a means to translate between two different perspectives, the subjective and the objective, but this guy is conflating our perspective on reality with reality itself. By this reasoning, I would be right to tell you that you will stop existing when I die.
(May 16, 2014 at 10:39 am)Pickup_shonuff Wrote:(May 16, 2014 at 9:56 am)Coffee Jesus Wrote: I take that back. That was a strong statement.
Indeed. But (slight off topic) doesn't the idea of a deterministic Universe imply fatalism, and in turn, the necessity of intelligence?
Not if we're pretending that we don't know certain things, or imagining a hypothetical scenario in which things are different.

