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Originally Posted by Reverend Keith  I'm a fan of panpsychism, which holds that consciousness, or at least some sort of AWARENESS is present in the material world down to the smallest level.
In brief, the reason for this is that I believe, intuitively, logically and by personal experience, that consciousness is not something that emerges from the physical world as a by-product - but is something intrinsic to it.
Philosopher David Chalmers (an advocate of panpsychism) has assembled an enormous and extreemly comprehensive list of online papers on the problems of consciousness here: Online papers on consciousness which I would highly recommend. Be warned you may end up reading for days  |
This idea of panpsychism is rather similar to some of the other thoughts floating around this thread, and is also something that I have at one point semi-intuited while thinking about things at their fundamental level, albeit it was under different terminology (i.e. fundamental interactions). Thanks for the link; I think it definitely will take some time to sift through that collection. I'll probably only pick and chose what seems particularly interesting to read though...
