Tuesday, September 20, 2016

"Why panpsychism fails to solve the mystery of consciousness" (Aeon article)



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Why panpsychism fails to solve the mystery of consciousness
// Aeon


Is consciousness everywhere? Is it a basic feature of the Universe, at the very heart of the tiniest subatomic particles? Such an idea – panpsychism as it is known – might sound like New Age mysticism, but some hard-nosed analytic philosophers have suggested it might be how things are, and it's n...
By Keith Frankish
Read at Aeon

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