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Panpsychism is related to physics because it addresses the limitations of the scientific worldview, specifically arguing that physics describes matter only in terms of structure and dispositional properties [1], [2], [3]. Panpsychists propose that consciousness serves as the intrinsic, non-dispositional nature underlying the entities and behaviors studied by physics [4], [5], [6].
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Critique of Panpsychism: Philosophical Coherence and Scientific ... thequran.love 4 facts
claimPanpsychism is criticized for being untestable because panpsychists do not claim that the mental aspect of particles changes their publicly observable behavior, meaning electrons behave the same under panpsychist assumptions as they do under standard physics.
perspectiveThe primary value of panpsychism, according to its proponents, is not in altering scientific predictions but in completing the scientific story by accounting for the first-person perspective that physics leaves out.
claimPanpsychism is a monistic metaphysics that attempts to synthesize physics, which focuses on structure, and phenomenology, which focuses on experience.
claimPanpsychism offers a candidate solution to the hard problem of consciousness by relocating it to the foundations of physics, aligning with the Russell-Eddington insight regarding the incomplete nature of scientific descriptions of reality.
Panpsychism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2015 Edition) plato.stanford.edu 4 facts
perspectivePanpsychists argue that the dispositional properties of remote connectedness via informational states in basic physics represent the primitive consciousness of basic physical entities.
claimThe intrinsic nature argument for panpsychism posits that every actual thing must possess an intrinsic nature, and since physics describes objects in purely dispositional terms (such as an electron's spin), these dispositions must be grounded in non-dispositional attributes.
claimA significant problem for panpsychism is that even if a revolution in fundamental physics were required to account for consciousness, there is no clear reason why the new features of that transformed physics would necessarily be mental features.
claimThe assumption that unobservable and hypothetical entities postulated by physics are entirely real and constitute the ontological foundation of the world is a central premise for distinguishing emergentism from panpsychism.
Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu 2 facts
perspectivePanpsychists generally posit that the richness and variety of human consciousness result from a relatively small number of fundamental mental qualities, with Russellian monists specifically arguing these are the intrinsic nature of basic properties identified by physics.
claimThe panpsychist proposal regarding electrons suggests that while physics describes how an electron behaves, the electron itself is essentially a thing that instantiates consciousness of an extremely basic kind.
Hard Problem of Consciousness | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy iep.utm.edu 1 fact
claimPanpsychism posits that phenomenal properties are the intrinsic categorical bases for the relational, dispositional properties described in physics, implying that everything physical has an underlying phenomenal nature.
Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu 1 fact
claimThe view that emergentism is distinct from panpsychism relies on the assumption that the unobservable and hypothetical entities postulated by physics are entirely real and constitute the ontological foundation of the world.