> we do know that a calculator doesn't think or have awareness in the way we consider ourselves to. If only this were true. Some people take panpsychism serio

> we do know that a calculator doesn't think or have awareness in the way we consider ourselves to. If only this were true. Some people take panpsychism seriously, and while it may sound ludicrous at first blush, it isn't actually unreasonable. Hard materialist reductionism may be true but no one's really given an irrefutable explanation for the oddity which is consciousness. It's tempting to say "Things that don't respond to stimulus are obviously not self-aware", but see locked-in syndrome for a falsification of that claim.