Discussion Who else here believes in panpsychism?

[KillingPain267]

It's an interesting philosophy. I'm even trying to fit it into a Christian biblical framework.

 

[BloomingAzaleas]

Could you explain it

 

[KillingPain267]

Could you explain it

It's the belief that all or almost all things have some form or conscious experience. So a human with a complex brain has a conscious experience of himself and his environment, but so do rocks and individual particles perhaps, or at least plants, and planets, moons as well as systems like like forests, beehives and galaxies.

 

[BloomingAzaleas]

It's the belief that all or almost all things have some form or conscious experience. So a human with a complex brain has a conscious experience of himself and his environment, but so do rocks and individual particles perhaps, or at least plants, and planets, moons as well as systems like like forests, beehives and galaxies.

It kind of sounds like animism, I'm more inclined to believe I'm not conscious though, just an npc

 

[KillingPain267]

It kind of sounds like animism, I'm more inclined to believe I'm not conscious though, just an npc

Animism is not the same. But yeah, it's either everything is conscious, or nothing. To say that consciousness doesn't exist at all is a bit harder to believe since it would deny your own experience even. But saying that only things with central nervous systems are conscious runs into the "hard problem of the consciousness" or the problem of explaining how consciousness arises from matter.

 

[BloomingAzaleas]

I'm for sure not conscious

I do not think, therefore I am not (∩´∀｀＠)⊃

 

[KillingPain267]

I'm for sure not conscious

I do not think, therefore I am not (∩´∀｀＠)⊃

There is indeed no way for me to prove or disprove that.

 

[froggirl9000]

I think that plants, particularly mushrooms and trees, are not only conscious, but that they are probably more intelligent than us.

 

[EvisceratedJester]

I don't find myself buying into it.

I'm more inclined to believe I'm not conscious though, just an npc

Hate to break it to you, but you are conscious. Consciousness encompasses having perceptions, thoughts, and feelings, like what you are displaying it right now. Basically, it is about having awareness. It describes varying degrees of awareness of external and internal stimuli.