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The relationship between mental states and living organisms is established through philosophical debates regarding how material systems give rise to consciousness, as seen in the enactivist paradigm [1] and Thomas Nagel's premises [2]. Furthermore, scholars like John Stewart argue that grounding cognition as an essential feature of living organisms is a proposed solution to the problem of how material states become mental states [3].
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Good Old-Fashioned Artificial Consciousness and the Intermediate ... frontiersin.org 2 facts
claimThe enactivist paradigm shifts the burden of explaining how material states become mental states onto the notion of the living organism, which the author argues is not a convincing conceptual fulcrum since vitalism has been dismissed.
quoteJohn Stewart stated: “How can a material state be a mental state? Hoary it may be, yet the problem is anything but solved. […] The paradigm of enaction solves this problem by grounding all cognition as an essential feature of living organism” (Stewart, 2010, p. 1).
Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu 1 fact
claimThomas Nagel's argument for panpsychism relies on four premises: Material Composition (living organisms are complex material systems with no immaterial parts), Realism (mental states are genuine properties of living organisms), No Radical Emergence (all properties of a complex organism are intelligibly derived from the properties of its parts), and Non-Reductionism (mental states are not intelligibly derived from physical properties alone).