Re:Consciousness as a State of Matter (2015)
by nbulka on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @05:01PM
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Could those stars then potentially have thoughts or actions?
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Re:Consciousness as a State of Matter (2015)
by incompatible on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @05:43PM
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It doesn't seem likely to me, since they aren't the kinds of physical processes that generate thoughts, so far as we understand it. The idea that composite objects like tables don't actually exist is called mereological nihilism.