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Physics is defined as the scientific discipline that models and describes the behavior, structure, and extrinsic properties of matter [1], [2], [3]. Furthermore, the relationship is grounded in the historical and philosophical distinction that physics focuses on the quantitative aspects of matter while leaving its intrinsic nature unaddressed [4], [5], [6].
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Critique of Panpsychism: Philosophical Coherence and Scientific ... thequran.love 5 facts
claimPanpsychism posits consciousness or proto-consciousness as the hidden internal aspect of matter, suggesting that physics has a blindspot regarding the subjective reality behind equations.
accountPhilip Goff recounts that Galileo Galilei established a sharp distinction between the quantitative, mathematically describable aspects of matter and the qualitative aspects like colors, sounds, and feelings, stipulating that physics would confine itself to the former.
claimThe intrinsic nature argument asserts that panpsychism provides a satisfying answer to the gap in the scientific worldview where physics describes matter only in terms of structure, relations, and behavior, but fails to describe what matter is like in itself.
perspectivePhilip Goff argues that by limiting physics to the quantitative aspects of matter, science rendered consciousness invisible to physical theory by design, leaving physics to describe what matter does rather than what it is intrinsically.
claimPhilip Goff and Galen Strawson advocate for a neo-Russellian monist view of consciousness, which is based on Bertrand Russell's insight that physics reveals the structure of matter but not its intrinsic character.
Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu 2 facts
claimRussellian monism posits that information from the physical sciences is limited because physics only describes the extrinsic, relational, mathematical, or dispositional nature of matter, leaving its intrinsic, concrete, and categorical nature unknown.
claimThe primary function of physics is to provide mathematical models that accurately predict the behavior of matter.
Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu 1 fact
claimThe argument that wings are a complex configuration of matter is based on the possibilities implicit in the physics of the DNA-based phylogeny of all living things.
Panpsychism - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
claimPhysics describes the extrinsic properties of matter but does not describe the intrinsic properties that ground those extrinsic properties.
Non-physicalist Theories of Consciousness cambridge.org 1 fact
referenceDefining physical properties as those described by the science of physics is an alternative to defining physical as material, because modern physics recognizes that many things, such as certain particles, lack properties traditionally associated with matter like mass, solidity, or extension.