RE: Panpsychism is not as crazy as it sounds.
May 17, 2014 at 4:06 pm
(This post was last modified: May 17, 2014 at 4:06 pm by Coffee Jesus.)
(May 17, 2014 at 3:40 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: I think the fact that it does "arise" from matter, implies to some that it in some pre-existing or unexpressed form is contained within the basic structure of matter itself. Call it the "fundamentals of stuff" if you'd like.
You're assuming that the world is fundamentally composed of states.
(May 17, 2014 at 3:40 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: Some monists like Spinoza believed that the physical and phenomenal were two sides of the same coin
That appears to be the case in instances where mind is present.
(May 17, 2014 at 3:40 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: the same essential "stuff," both fundamental to the Universe.
Not everybody experiences color, so color isn't fundamental to the universe. The same can be said about countless mental states.
You're lumping all phenomenal states into the same category even though they're clearly different. This lumping together is what leads idealists to argue that mental properties can only have causal relationships with other mental properties.
