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Panpsychism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2015 Edition) plato.stanford.edu May 23, 2001 4 facts
claimDemocritus proposed a form of emergentism based on the possibility of multi-shaped atoms interlocking to form an infinity of more complex shapes.
claimDemocritus argued that qualities of experience, or qualia, could not be explained by the interlocking of atoms and therefore relegated them to non-existence.
claimEduard von Hartmann (1842-1906) extended his doctrine of the unconscious to the level of atoms.
quoteDemocritus stated: 'sweet exists by convention, bitter by convention, in truth only atoms and the void'.
Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Jul 18, 2017 3 facts
claimEduard von Hartmann (1842–1906) extended his doctrine of the unconscious to the level of atoms.
claimDemocritus propounded a form of reductionism where emergence is based on multi-shaped atoms interlocking to form complex shapes.
quoteDemocritus argued that qualities of experience do not exist in reality, stating: 'by convention sweet and by convention bitter, by convention hot, by convention cold, by convention color; but in reality atoms and void.'
Structural Organization of the Human Body | Anatomy and ... courses.lumenlearning.com 3 facts
claimThe human body is organized into levels of increasing complexity, which include subatomic particles, atoms, molecules, organelles, cells, tissues, organs, organ systems, organisms, and the biosphere.
claimAtoms are composed of subatomic particles, specifically protons, electrons, and neutrons.
claimA molecule is formed by the combination of two or more atoms, such as the water molecules, proteins, and sugars found in living things.
Critique of Panpsychism: Philosophical Coherence and Scientific ... thequran.love May 7, 2025 2 facts
claimBiologist Jerry Coyne argues that panpsychism fails to explain how the rudimentary consciousness of electrons, atoms, and molecules combines to create the sophisticated consciousness found in humans, noting that panpsychist philosophers lack a solution for this.
claimPanpsychists argue that drawing a line to define where consciousness begins, such as at the level of atoms or cells, is arbitrary without an independent reason.
Dualism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Winter 2016 Edition) plato.stanford.edu Aug 19, 2003 1 fact
claimWhile the predicate 'hurricane' is not equivalent to a description in the language of physics, individual hurricanes are considered collections of physical atoms behaving in specific ways, illustrating that the ontology of physics is sufficient to explain the weather.
The Compatibility of Christianity with Panpsychism, Part 1 theologycommons.gcu.edu Sep 2, 2025 1 fact
quotePierre Duhem described the classical Cartesian view of the physical as follows: "matter is essentially identical with the extended in length, breadth, and depth, as the language of geometry goes; we have to consider only its various shapes and motions. Matter for the Cartesians is, if you please, a kind of vast fluid, incompressible and absolutely homogeneous. Hard, unbreakable atoms and the empty spaces separating them are merely so many appearances, so many illusions."
Panpsychism: Conscious Rocks and Socks - Free Thinking Ministries freethinkingministries.com Nov 24, 2023 1 fact
perspectiveDr. Tim Stratton argues that the problem of evil is not a valid reason to reject the God hypothesis or to conclude that inanimate objects like atoms, rocks, and socks are conscious.
Quantum Theory of Consciousness - Scirp.org. scirp.org 1 fact
claimAs atoms form molecules, and molecules form cells and organs, the complexity of their structures increases, which expands their spectra and detectors to include a wider range of absorbable and emittable frequencies.
David Chalmers on the meta-problem of consciousness selfawarepatterns.com Apr 6, 2019 1 fact
claimThe author of the source text argues that panpsychism involves an irreducible notion of consciousness, where proponents assert that consciousness in entities like neurons, proteins, molecules, atoms, or electrons is a primitive building block rather than the consciousness familiar to humans.
Panpsychism - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
claimIn quantum mechanics, atoms and photons exist in a state of quantum superposition, meaning they occupy multiple contradictory states or locations simultaneously, until they are measured.