Categoría: Panpsychism
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Is sentience evolutionarily useful or physically inevitable?
It is very intuitive to believe that sentience motivates us to make (better) decisions («better», from an evolutionary point of view). But we can also consider that it is possible that we are sentient robots, but without will, that we simply do what we have been programmed for, even though we have the feeling that…
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What is paneudaimonia?
This paneudaimonia looks like the opposite of panpsychism. «Paneudaimonia is the idea that the whole universe is absolute pleasure, except in the domain of what we know as sentient beings, in which all experiences imply different types of suffering. Paneudaimonia is the idea that identity, and / or the “I” and / or consciousness are generated…
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Consciousness and the binding-problem
While panpsychism sounds crazy, it is actually a highly viable theory of consciousness, as long as it is distinguished from animism: the view that everything is alive and therefore possesses agency, intentionality, thoughts, emotions, etc. Elementary particles almost certainly are not endowed any of these attributes, but according to (my take on) panpsychism, they have…