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Re:Phenomenal consciousness is alien to us: SETI and the Fer... by HeuristicsCG on Sunday October 20, 2024 @06:33PM (#41899053)
it's commonplace to hold the opinion that an individual particle is slightly conscious
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Re:Phenomenal consciousness is alien to us: SETI and the Fer... by ronjobber on Sunday October 20, 2024 @06:40PM (#41899078)
This is a thing... but it is certainly not commonplace.
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Re:Phenomenal consciousness is alien to us: SETI and the Fer... by HeuristicsCG on Monday October 21, 2024 @02:40AM (#41901293)
In philosophy of mind it's not something that would raise an eyebrow
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Re:Phenomenal consciousness is alien to us: SETI and the Fer... by n4r9 on Monday October 21, 2024 @04:47AM (#41902002)
Are you referring to pansychism? I don't get the impression that it's very popular these days.

> There are few explicit defenders of panpsychism at the present time. The most prominent are David Griffin, Gregg Rosenberg, David Skrbina and Timothy Sprigge.

https://plato.stanford.edu/ARCHIVES/WIN2009/entries/panpsych...

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