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> Panpsychism seems like a bandaid to solve the hard problem of consciousness It doesn't even do that, it just pushes it down the stack. If I ask, why is the
by empath75 7y ago
> Panpsychism seems like a bandaid to solve the hard problem of consciousness
It doesn't even do that, it just pushes it down the stack.
If I ask, why is the sky blue, I don't want to hear "Because it's made of blue stuff."
Not only is it wrong, it doesn't have any explanatory power at all. Ultimately if you want to understand why something has a certain property, you want to know how it arises from the emergent behavior of something more fundamental. A hurricane isn't made of hurricane bits, and brains aren't made of consciousness particles.
- mapcars 7y ago>If I ask, why is the sky blue, I don't want to hear "Because it's made of blue stuff." Well, you are not going far if you hear only what you want to hear. PS sky is blue because you perceive it as blue.
- skywhopper 7y agoYou missed the meaning of that idiom entirely. They don’t want to hear “because it’s made of blue stuff” because it’s wrong and useless, not because it is distasteful.
- mapcars 7y agoI don't think I missed anything, if you already decided what is wrong - this is not a honest search - you just want to find something which satisfies your views.
- robbrown451 7y agoI think he/she wants something that isn't circular and therefore meaningless.
- mapcars 7y agoAgain, you put restriction of meaningful answer. But why not beautiful answer? Or poetic answer? Or funny one? Ultimately you still decided what you want first and then trying to find what fits.
- Aaargh20318 7y ago> why not beautiful answer? Or poetic answer? Or funny one? Because it's not useful.
- robbrown451 7y ago"you put restriction of meaningful answer" I know, pretty crazy of me there. Meanwhile I annoy car dealers by going in with an expectation of a vehicle that can actually get me from one place to another, rather than just sit there and amuse me.
- arnoooooo 7y agoagreed.