Wednesday, March 1, 2017

"Panpsychism is crazy, but it’s also most probably true" (Aeon article)


Panpsychism is crazy, but it's also most probably true
// Aeon

Common sense tells us that only living things have an inner life. Rabbits and tigers and mice have feelings, sensations and experiences; tables and rocks and molecules do not. Panpsychists deny this datum of common sense. According to panpsychism, the smallest bits of matter – things such as elec...

By Philip Goff

Read at Aeon