[LINK] Is everything conscious?

[Stephen Loosley]

On 10/10/2024 4:56 pm, kindly David writes:

> On 8/10/24 16:26, Antony Barry wrote:
 >
>> My problem with this is that there is no clear definition of what 
>> consciousness is. [...]
> 
> My problem with the piece in question is that distorts the whole idea of 
> consciousness into New-Age mysticism.


Wouldn't dismiss our original panpsychism as mysticism :)

 > In Western philosophy panpsychism goes all the way back to the Ancient
 > Greeks, where philosophers like Thales, Heraclitus, and Plato espoused
 > some version of it. And from Hindus in India to followers of Shintoism
 > in Japan to the Indigenous peoples of America many people believed and
 > still believe that animals, plants, and, elements of the natural world
 > are conscious.


> As Tony says,we need to predict the behaviour of other animals. We also 
> need to be able to interpret the world around us generally.. So all our
 > sensory understanding of the world is pieced together indirectly in
 > our brains.  I suppose we could say it's an imagined world .. >
> But stones...? NO!!
> 


What about electrons, they do know we are watching and act accordingly

Just maybe everything above absolute zero Kelvin energy has life-force

Anyway, I love the Vendanta philosophy with nearly everything as a god


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