Re: What exactly is "panpsychism"?

From: Mark Waser (mwaser@cox.net)
Date: Sun Jan 11 2004 - 18:56:10 MST


> I would be curious to know what "scientific evidence" you're referring to.

Things like absent qualia, fading qualia, and inverted qualia
(http://www.u.arizona.edu/~chalmers/papers/qualia.html).

<google on qualia to find a lot more like the above>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Goertzel" <ben@goertzel.org>
To: <sl4@sl4.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 5:31 PM
Subject: RE: What exactly is "panpsychism"?

>
>
> > I would
> > also argue
> > that rocks don't have qualia unless they have some sort of
consciousness.
> > And I would point out that there is scientific evidence that seems to
> > support these points of view and many learned experts and philosophers
who
> > will debate the qualia point that seems to have become the
> > orthodoxy of this
> > list.
> >
> > Mark
>
> There is no orthodox opinion about qualia on SL4, I'm certain of that.
>
> I would be curious to know what "scientific evidence" you're referring to.
>
> -- Ben G
>
>
>



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