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Panpsychism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2015 Edition) plato.stanford.edu May 23, 2001 6 facts
claimGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz posited that monads are created by God, who is himself a monad.
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.”
perspectiveBaruch Spinoza viewed mind and matter as attributes of a single, infinite substance he identified as God.
claimIn George Berkeley's philosophy, a Supreme Mind (God) organizes the conscious experiences of all finite minds to sustain the illusion of an independent material world.
claimGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz conceived of monads as mentalistic automatons that move from one perceptual state to another according to a pre-defined rule imposed by God.
claimMalebranche's occasionalism posits that God must intervene between volition and action, and between stimulus and sensation, to account for the interaction between mind and the physical world.
Non-physicalist Theories of Consciousness cambridge.org Dec 20, 2023 6 facts
claimGeorge Berkeley argues that God is the source of human ideas and ensures that they appear to individuals in a regular and predictable manner.
claimEmergentism describes any form of dualism that posits consciousness is causally produced by the brain or other physical configurations, distinguishing it from views where consciousness has other origins, such as being directly created or transferred into the physical world by God.
claimContemporary idealists John Foster (1982) and Howard Robinson (1982) argue that the concept of an observer-independent physical world is unproven and difficult to conceptualize, and they posit God as the source of human ideas and the explanation for regularities in perception.
claimYetter-Chappell (2017) provides an exception to the contemporary idealist view that God is the source of ideas and the explanation for regularities in perception.
perspectiveExplaining the regularities of perceptions in subjective idealism via God is often viewed as a complicated hypothesis that makes the theory less simple than physicalism.
claimGeorge Berkeley claims that physical objects do not disappear when not perceived by humans because they are always perceived by God.
Dualism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Winter 2016 Edition) plato.stanford.edu Aug 19, 2003 6 facts
claimOccasionalists, including Arnold Geulincx and Nicholas Malebranche, generalized their conclusion about mind-body interaction to treat all causation as directly dependent on God.
claimParallelism has historically been adopted by thinkers like Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz who believe in a pre-established harmony set in place by God, as the theory is considered incredible outside of a theistic framework.
perspectiveArnold Geulincx and Nicholas Malebranche, as disciples of René Descartes, concluded that all mind-body interactions require the direct intervention of God, with states of mind and body serving only as occasions for such intervention rather than as real causes.
claimGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz proposed that God set up the universe so that the mind and body always behave as if they were interacting, without requiring specific intervention on each occasion.
claimNicolas Malebranche argued that natural interaction between mind and body was impossible, requiring God to intervene specifically on each occasion where interaction was needed.
perspectiveGeorge Berkeley suggested that once genuine interaction between mind and body is ruled out, it is best to allow that God creates the physical world directly within the mental realm as a construct of experience.
The Hard Problem of Consciousness | Springer Nature Link link.springer.com 1 fact
accountRené Descartes proposed that animals are 'zombie-animals' that lack phenomenal experience, necessitating the introduction of God as an additional principle to explain human consciousness.
Changes in Diet Allegedly Drove Human Evolution answersingenesis.org Jan 12, 2013 1 fact
claimThe article asserts that God created Adam and Eve fully human on the same day as land animals about 6,000 years ago.
Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Jul 18, 2017 1 fact
claimGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz conceived of monads as mentalistic automatons that transition between perceptual states according to a pre-defined rule imposed by God.