Philosopher Philip Goff answers questions about panpsychism

Re:Philosopher Philip Goff answers questions about panpsychism by Lambdanaut on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @01:40PM (#22047860)

What you have are carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and a few other pieces of earth, water, and air that are dancing around each other in a very complex way in order to dance up a very complex experience that has interesting properties that the snow does not exhibit in its experience of simple deformation.

Your very special organs are nothing but melted snow(water) deforming against broken up rock(carbon), repeatedly, in beautiful fractal patterns that have emerged through evolutionary processes over billions of years.

These evolutionary processes that turned Snow into You.

The _information_ is higher order deformation.

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Re:Philosopher Philip Goff answers questions about panpsychism by karmakaze on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @04:59PM (#22049677)

So redefine experience = process? That's all I can parse out of it.

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Re:Philosopher Philip Goff answers questions about panpsychism by Lambdanaut on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @08:02PM (#22050851)

Cool, that's a start. Another implication is that you're a lot older and you've experienced a lot more than you identify with at the moment in the span of time identifying as this human system.

I won't give you more than you can chew. Accepting that process=experience is already a huge paradigm shift.

If you're interested in deeper implications, it's better if you come to them without anyone handing them over.

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