RE: Panpsychism is not as crazy as it sounds.
May 17, 2014 at 2:35 pm
(This post was last modified: May 17, 2014 at 2:38 pm by Mudhammam.)
(May 17, 2014 at 2:28 pm)Godslayer Wrote: Divinity anywhere is nonsense let alone everywhere. If you want to essentially call every object conscious, or smaller yet, every particle conscious, you're free to be wrong.
This comes down to being pseudoscience when analyzed. People want to cling to ideas like Panpsychism or Panantheism or interesting ideas in Quantum Physics to keep their beliefs of divinity "conscious"
Divinity everywhere and within the nature of everything is pantheism.
Panpsychism is that the fundamental stuff of mind--which is not just electrochemical pulses but something more abstract, distinct from the physical, such as a thought of a pink elephant or a memory of a deceased family member--that IS a feature of the Universe as basic as gravity, and everything from the simplest forms of matter contain some form of it though it is realized by "us," our brain, our collection of cooperating and competing nerve cells, as conscious experience that emanates through countless, speedy neural firings
Where pantheism implies "soul" as this kind of deity, panpsychists are often naturalists in that mind is a natural phenomenon, not merely arising by natural law, but an integral law itself.
