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Jul 28, 2019

Is panpsychism accurate? Modern physics delivers a reality check

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If philosophers don’t try to mesh their long-held views with new scientific insights, then we have a problem. For instance, panpsychism may be due for an update: panprotopsychism, a view that says when fundamental “ingredients of reality” combine, they give rise to conscious experience — and that those fundamental ingredients are “quasimental.”

In this video, NASA’s own Dr. Susan Schneider, who specializes in astrobiology, explains further.

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