RE: Panpsychism is not as crazy as it sounds.
May 17, 2014 at 6:46 pm
(This post was last modified: May 17, 2014 at 6:49 pm by Mudhammam.)
(May 17, 2014 at 4:46 pm)Godslayer Wrote: "That'd be nice" = A rule?Oh do lighten up.

Quote:And you're right, it's has no scientific backing and therefore is pseudoscience. Philosophical positions still need evidence to some degree to be taken seriously. You're obviously wrong about the mind gap, the brain is the physical medium for the mind. The mind is an emergent property of the brain. One Neuron on it's own does nothing, but gather enough neurons together and you've got a network of neurons making chemical reactions and forming a mind. That's why we can look at the neurons of other animals and see they have the same activity, just less of it.
How does that occur? Magic? Is there an underlying principle that determines such an outcome for neurons? Does it have to be a certain biochemical organization or can silicon chips facilitate the same function? Does a specific structural organization of matter necessitate the presence of mind? Or is it the nature of the electrical impulses that count? Can some type of radio transmitter do the trick for neurons separated across miles of space? What is it about their nature that allows them to transcend their otherwise apparently inanimate quality--objects, rather than subjects--individual physical states and processes, which then give rise to the Ego, to intelligence, to intention? We are Unintended Intenders, which is unlike anything else we find in nature, hence we feel distinct, and yet this very nature is in us, is us.


