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Panpsychism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2015 Edition) plato.stanford.edu May 23, 2001 4 facts
quoteBaruch Spinoza wrote in his work Ethics (1677): “a circle existing in nature and the idea of the existing circle, which is also in God, are one and the same thing … therefore, whether we conceive nature under the attribute of Extension, or under the attribute of Thought … we shall find one and the same order, or one and the same connection of causes.”
claimGustav Fechner extended his panpsychism to all of nature in his 1851 work 'Zend-Avista', aligning with his dual-aspect metaphysics.
perspectivePanpsychism posits that everything in nature possesses a mental aspect, with matter being the other side of a mentalistic coin.
claimAnalogical arguments for panpsychism seek to establish analogies between enminded entities and the rest of nature to justify extending mental attributes to all of nature.
Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Jul 18, 2017 4 facts
quoteIn the illustrative scholium to proposition seven of book two of the Ethics, Baruch Spinoza writes: "a circle existing in nature and the idea of the existing circle, which is also in God, are one and the same thing … therefore, whether we conceive nature under the attribute of Extension, or under the attribute of Thought … we shall find one and the same order, or one and the same connection of causes…."
claimBaruch Spinoza's philosophy implies that physical science is a method for studying the psychology of God, as there is nothing in nature that lacks a mental aspect.
claimGalileo's mathematization of nature excluded sensory qualities of experience, such as the redness of a tomato, the spiciness of paprika, or the smell of flowers.
perspectiveFerdinand C.S. Schiller (1864–1937) provided a pragmatist defense of panpsychism, arguing that it is a doctrine which yields otherwise unattainable insights into nature through various analogical arguments.
The Hard Problem of Consciousness | Springer Nature Link link.springer.com 3 facts
referenceAlfred North Whitehead described the seventeenth-century dualism as cutting across the systematic totality of nature, confining the objective world of science to mere spatial material with simple location in space and time, subject to definite rules of locomotion.
claimCartesian dualism has been identified as the most central problem of modern science and the modern/colonial worldview due to its ontological dualism, which contributes to the 'Great Divide' between mind and body, subject and object, human and non-human, culture and nature, humanities and natural sciences, and Us and Them.
claimRussellian monism holds that nature consists of entities with intrinsic (proto)phenomenal qualities standing in causal relations within a space-time manifold.
The role of Plant Foods in the evolution and Dispersal of early Humans kernsverlag.com Jul 30, 2022 3 facts
referenceH. T. Bunn reported archaeological evidence for meat-eating by Plio-Pleistocene hominids at Koobi Fora and Olduvai Gorge in a 1981 study published in Nature.
referenceS. Carlhoff and colleagues sequenced the genome of a Middle Holocene hunter-gatherer from Wallacea, as reported in a 2021 study published in Nature.
referenceM. Aubert, R. Lebe, A. A. Oktaviana, M. Tang, B. Burhan, Hamrullah, A. Jusdi, Abdullah, B. Hakim, J.-x. Zhao, I. M. Geria, P. H. Sulistyarto, R. Sardi, and A. Brumm published 'Earliest Hunting Scene in Prehistoric Art' in Nature in 2019.
Actar Publishers actar.com 2 facts
referenceAlper Derinboğaz's work over the past decade, as presented in his book 'Geospaces', proposes an architectural approach that views buildings as iterations of nature rather than artificial objects, emphasizing continuities between natural forms, human inhabitation, and fabrication technologies.
referenceThe Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) defines 'Biocities' as cities that follow ecological principles to promote life and biodiversity, aiming to create an ecologically attuned and reciprocal relationship with nature.
The Synergy of Symbolic and Connectionist AI in LLM-Empowered ... arxiv.org Jul 11, 2024 2 facts
referenceDavid Silver et al. published research in Nature in 2017 describing the AlphaGo system, which mastered the game of Go without human knowledge.
referenceDavid E. Rumelhart, Geoffrey E. Hinton, and Ronald J. Williams described the backpropagation algorithm for learning representations in a 1986 Nature article.
David Ludwig (Wageningen University and Research): Publications ... philpeople.org 2 facts
claimThe 'ontological turn' in anthropology is an intellectual project rooted in the critique of the dualism of culture and nature.
claimIn the paper 'Back by popular demand, ontology,' the authors define the 'ontological turn' in anthropology as an intellectual project rooted in the critique of the dualism of culture and nature.
Nutrition and Health in Human Evolution-Past to Present pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 1 fact
claimCulture represents the result of nature rather than a contrast to it, and culture holds a dominant position compared to natural evolution.
Self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-transcendence (S-ART) frontiersin.org 1 fact
referenceDrevets et al. (1997) identified subgenual prefrontal cortex abnormalities in mood disorders in a study published in Nature.
Critique of Panpsychism: Philosophical Coherence and Scientific ... thequran.love May 7, 2025 1 fact
claimBaruch Spinoza (1632–1677) advanced a form of dual-aspect monism, holding that there is only one substance—identified with God or Nature—which possesses infinite attributes, of which mind (thought) and matter (extension) are the two accessible to humans.
Adversarial testing of global neuronal workspace and integrated ... research.birmingham.ac.uk Jun 5, 2025 1 fact
referenceThe adversarial collaboration study was published in the journal Nature, volume 642, issue 8066, pages 133-142, with the DOI 10.1038/s41586-025-08888-1.
Theories and Methods of Consciousness biomedres.us Jan 29, 2024 1 fact
perspectiveContemporary post-materialist psychologists advocate for an antihumanist psychology that decenters the human subject as a thinking being superior to nature.
Quantum mechanics and the puzzle of human consciousness alleninstitute.org May 30, 2024 1 fact
quote“what makes science uniquely powerful is that you can have strongly held opinions, but you can test things by asking Nature a question.”
Panpsychism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2025 Edition) plato.stanford.edu May 23, 2001 1 fact
claimBaruch Spinoza (1632–1677) and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) proposed panpsychist views as an attempt to provide a more unified picture of nature in opposition to the dualism of Galileo and Descartes.
Evolutionary psychology - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
referenceThe 2007 article 'The architecture of human kin detection' published in the journal Nature discusses the interaction between social and biological factors in human kin recognition.
Something Rich and Strange: Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941 ... smuralis.wordpress.com Apr 16, 2012 1 fact
accountKalpana Bardhan translated a number of Rabindranath Tagore's songs, categorizing them under the headings: Love, Nature, and Devotion.
A framework to assess clinical safety and hallucination rates of LLMs ... nature.com May 13, 2025 1 fact
referenceFarquhar et al. (2024) proposed using semantic entropy as a method for detecting hallucinations in large language models, published in Nature.
Quantum Approaches to Consciousness plato.stanford.edu Nov 30, 2004 1 fact
claimQuantum theory introduced an element of fundamental randomness into nature, which stands in contrast to the deterministic worldview that preceded it where randomness was merely an expression of ignorance regarding detailed descriptions.
Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu May 23, 2001 1 fact
claimGenetic arguments for panpsychism assert that the best account of the genesis of mind lies in panpsychism, while analogical arguments seek to find analogies between clearly enminded entities and the rest of nature to warrant the extension of mental attributes throughout nature.
Panpsychism - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
claimDavid Chalmers suggests that information which is physically realized is simultaneously phenomenally realized, implying that both regularities in nature and conscious experience are expressions of information's underlying character.
Seven-Year Experiment Uncovers New Insights into Nature of ... sci.news May 1, 2025 1 fact
referenceThe study titled 'Adversarial testing of global neuronal workspace and integrated information theories of consciousness' by O. Ferrante et al. (Cogitate Consortium) was published in the journal Nature on April 30, 2025, with the DOI 10.1038/s41586-025-08888-1.
How does consciousness work? - Monash Lens lens.monash.edu Jul 4, 2025 1 fact
claimThe journal Nature published the results of an “adversarial collaboration” by the Cogitate Consortium, which tested the global neuronal workspace theory and the integrated information theory.
Consciousness (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2025 ... plato.stanford.edu Jun 18, 2004 1 fact
claimThere is a widespread consensus among theorists that an adequate account of the mind requires understanding consciousness and its place in nature.
Adversarial testing of neuronal global workspace hypothesis and ... facebook.com Apr 30, 2025 1 fact
claimThe adversarial testing study published in Nature, titled 'Adversarial testing of neuronal global workspace hypothesis and ...', evaluated two leading hypotheses of consciousness: Integrated information theory (IIT) and global network workspace theory (GNWT).
(PDF) Adversarial testing of global neuronal workspace and ... researchgate.net Apr 30, 2025 1 fact
claimThe authors of the Nature article 'Adversarial testing of global neuronal workspace and ...' conducted an open science adversarial collaboration that directly juxtaposes integrated information theory and global neuronal workspace theory.
Quantum Approaches to Consciousness plato.stanford.edu Nov 30, 2004 1 fact
claimQuantum randomness in processes such as spontaneous emission of light, radioactive decay, and state reduction is considered a fundamental feature of nature, independent of human knowledge or ignorance.