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Aren't we just black boxes of a big sack of brains? Panpsychism proposes that a plausible theory of consciousness is that everything has consciousness, and the
by vouaobrasil 2y ago
Aren't we just black boxes of a big sack of brains?
Panpsychism proposes that a plausible theory of consciousness is that everything has consciousness, and the recognizable consciousness we have emerges from our high complexity density, but that consciousness is present in all things.
- thfuran 2y agoA theory, perhaps, but not a plausible one.
- awfulneutral 2y agoI mean, consciousness is a really complicated topic. Either it's an illusion, it's a single thing that inhabits us (i.e. a soul), or there is some smaller "unit" of consciousness like they are describing, which to me does seem fairly reasonable to consider, since brains can act really weird and non-uniform in certain situations, plus most things are composed of smaller things.
- thfuran 2y agoYou're saying it's plausible that an electron is conscious?
- awfulneutral 2y agoThe definition of "conscious" is kind of the whole question, but I could probably believe that as easily as the idea that every brain of sufficient complexity gets a single unit of conscious soul that inhabits it. I really don't know how it works.
- ARandomerDude 2y agoJust because dozens of people think rocks or plastic trash bins are conscious doesn't make it so – even if they name their imbecilic idea something impressive-sounding like "pansychism."
- vouaobrasil 2y agoWell, how do you explain the coming of consciousness into being whereas before there was none? Souls? That's equally imebecillic.