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Panpsychism is the extreme claim that everything in the physical world—all subatomic particles-are in some sense ‘conscious’ or have a basic kind of ‘proto-consciousness’. Why are an increasing number of leading philosophers taking panpsychism seriously? Something must be up. Could it be doubt that the scientific project to explain consciousness has failed?
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Yujin Nagasawa is the Kingfisher College Chair of the Philosophy of Religion and Ethics, and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oklahoma.
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@imperfekt7905
02/16/2025 - 12:22 AMOk wtf is proto consciousness. Another annoying word game.
@studytunes8549
02/16/2025 - 12:22 AMTo sum up = Stuff is a little bit smart, lots of stuff put together is very smart.
@studytunes8549
02/16/2025 - 12:22 AMHe looks like Einstein's cousin's best friend's roommate.
@JustinKrueger-f4k
02/16/2025 - 12:22 AMGoogle gives isolated info for us to make the connections. Each connection or discovery eventually you'll get a Halo=Enlightened
@bartplantenga-uw9yd
02/16/2025 - 12:22 AMNot a single mention of spinoza?! Kinda weird
@JonathanDmoch
02/16/2025 - 12:22 AMJust another name for the Tao.
@lostitsomeplace9413
02/16/2025 - 12:22 AMWe are all vehicles of experience for and from the whole, in my opinion
@TeamBabaNeem
02/16/2025 - 12:22 AMConsciousness is collectively experiencing everything at the same time. Quite easy to see. Non-Dualism…
@ChakkaYashwanth
02/16/2025 - 12:22 AMThis theory is stolen from eastern Hinduism non dual philosophy. Dang u guys r thieves
@billyvsbilly1
02/16/2025 - 12:22 AMI think this is something as humans. We have intuded it for a long time. Now we've come full circle. We'll see how this plays out
I love it!
@coachafella
02/16/2025 - 12:22 AMIt's a fantasy. Let us know when you have a test for it so that it can be falsified as with all scientific hypotheses. Until then it's in the category of mystical religion. Color, sound and feeling are constructions of the brain, just like dreams. They are not actual, direct perceptions of physical reality of the external world. Our sensory neurons are tuned and stimulated by light, sound, touch, chemicals, which then transmit electrical signals to the brain, which constructs representations of those stimuli to our awareness. But that entire sensory experience is an illusion. Evolution has produced the effect of consciousness as a means of enhancing survival, an effective tool. Supposing that all matter contains consciousness is a leap of faith, an interesting idea, but so far untestable.
@nincnanc
02/16/2025 - 12:22 AMIf you really exist, then this message has been created by your mind. Otherwise, I'm the only one existing here, and your replies are created by my mind.
@gautamkapoor9566
02/16/2025 - 12:22 AMThe Cosmic consciousness, please see Advait Vedanta philosophy of Shankaracharya ( India) several centuries ago. He has narrated several thought experiments to convince the reader that everything is within consciousness
@donaholleman5344
02/16/2025 - 12:22 AMAdvaita vedanta
@zeroonetime
02/16/2025 - 12:22 AMPanpsychism I.S. no other than Creative Thought processes, or quantized Creation in Action. From
0 to 0 all at 10nce of T.E.N. dimensions.
@sexhaver420
02/16/2025 - 12:22 AMWhy WOULDN'T you be able to get first-person experience out of a physical brain?
@godlessheathen100
02/16/2025 - 12:22 AMUpside down approach to consciousness.
Consciousness is as real as digestion, or metabolism, and just as reliant on the material, physical world from which it seems to emerge as a process. "Seems to" because it is akin to any other process having recursion in awareness of it's state. e.g. digestion having "awareness" of digestion. Consciousness is just a result of the organ that engages in ideation. There is no ghost in the machine.
@WessleyNeal
02/16/2025 - 12:22 AMIs the facist actual idealism by giovanni gentile the same as panpsychism?
@envitarose8970
02/16/2025 - 12:22 AMBecause we have given ourselves the task to define consciousness based on partial consciousness, we now create new names for what consciousness is 🙏🏽
All is mental- the universe is mind.. The first part of the truth lies The Kybalion 🙏🏽
@ricliu4538
02/16/2025 - 12:22 AMCan the TV watch itself? Observed can not see the observer observing it.
@ricliu4538
02/16/2025 - 12:22 AMBecause we are conscious we cannot see consciousness to understand it objectively.
@numericalcode
02/16/2025 - 12:22 AMIs this any different than idealism?
@uchitrangaswamy6633
02/16/2025 - 12:22 AMThis is borrowed from Hinduism
@Tiff143
02/16/2025 - 12:22 AMI am a true believer of Pan psychism because I have literally seen with my own two eyes that everything holds consciousness not at the same levels so a broom for instance cannot get up and talk and walk, but it does know that it is a broom it’s aware of itself I telepathically communicate with objects that you wouldn’t proceed to be alive all the time. And I always tell people, even if it makes you look nuts talk to objects talk to them and show them love so say a broom I show the broom love and say what a good job you’re doing . That broom is gonna work his damnedest to sweep the stuff I need to sweep and it’s gonna take less effort for me to do so I have tested this theory. I know it sounds nuts, but try it.❤
@MrBigdaddy2ya
02/16/2025 - 12:22 AMWhy must the greatest minds insist the greatest painting was an accident. Only a fool will try to convince someone that the Mona Lisa painting happened after all the right colors accidentally fell into place. How much more complex is the universe or mankind than a painting yet here we see that even science will deny a creator until the end. Things behave as if programmed because everything was programmed…
@globalonetranscription510
02/16/2025 - 12:22 AMDebunking Panpsychism
@afkhoso
02/16/2025 - 12:22 AMwhat audio is this? i have headphones on and interviewers voice is in the left ear and yujin is in my right ear… very uncomfortable.
@chiptowers1
02/16/2025 - 12:22 AMPanpsychism or Pantheism are just doctrines of beliefs, not confirmation. So really you would just be stuck in a revolving door with no end result.
Cosmic Panpsychism cannot be Cosmic Consciousness because the PROTO ie Combining Form has not been solved, ie meaning, the Proto of elements and which elements Combine with which elements to produce or realise Consciousness. How would or can elements do that and if they did, would that be considered as Consciousness simply because the act of the Proto of elements is doing something of purpose for something else of different value of Proto of elements for another purpose and so on to make the Universe work as it does, if so, that is not Physical nor Cosmic Consciousness.
It could only be Cosmic Consciousness if there was a Symbiotic relationship with Biology Matter and there is not that at play in the Universe and proof of that that there is no Symbiotic relationship with Proto Elements and Biology Matter happening, because if there was, would mean you would know who and what god is, but you dont, because your god would be Elements and Biology matter just like we humans are.
Fortunately there is an answer.
@infinidimensionalinfinitie5021
02/16/2025 - 12:22 AMnested vortexes;
of infinite layers;
of conscious matter;
@sublimeister9630
02/16/2025 - 12:22 AMThis is derived from the Organic view of the Cosmos from Taoism. 🙏🏼😊
@anilshah7528
02/16/2025 - 12:22 AMThis is a meaningful video, and the debate is worth appreciating. This is definitely one step forward in the right direction. May be a long way to go but ultimately, we will find the truth.
@Philosober
02/16/2025 - 12:22 AMCreating more unknowns without learning the basic one. Just because we don't know how matter acquire consciousness when it comes together, it doesn't mean other things(conciouss particles, conciouss Universe). Maybe this is the case and we just don't know how exactly it works. Assuming that the particles or the entire cosmos has consciousness is a stretch, but also I can not falsify.
@dr_shrinker
02/16/2025 - 12:22 AMPanpsychists are just people who can’t understand physics.
@juanfranciscogonzalez8288
02/16/2025 - 12:22 AMFelicitaciones Robert por tu búsqueda profunda e inteligente sobre la verdad de muchos fenómenos fisicos clásicos, quánticos, el significado de la existencia, Dios, el tiempo, realidad, freewill, conciencia y cerebro, religión, filosofía, problemas metafisicos, etc. Te invito a conocer mi teoría del alma y mi teoría de la conciencia. Muchas gracias por tu gran aporte. Saludos. Paper.Vet.Chile
@brendanrobinson6860
02/16/2025 - 12:22 AMTrying to put Zen into a philosophical argument.
@el_unico_cuban_blood8959
02/16/2025 - 12:22 AM💪🥷❤🙏☯️
@feltonhamilton21
02/16/2025 - 12:22 AMI believe the first person experiment is mainly a group of special molecules designed to give life to the nervous by grouping up and lying down ground information through the nervous system so information could pass through acupuncture microwaves. Closer to truth.
@michelangelope830
02/16/2025 - 12:22 AMDo you want to know if the Quran was memorized? I don't believe the Quran was memorized. Do you want to know if muslims lied to you?. I want proof that the Quran was memorized. Islam is dead and you can bury the lie. What would be the future of atheism if atheists continue to refuse to ask for evidence that the Quran was memorized? To not waste this loving poem I say atheism is a logical fallacy that assumes God is the religious idea of the creator of the creation to conclude wrongly no creator exists because a particular idea of God doesn’t exist. Thank you.
@truthofeverything
02/16/2025 - 12:22 AMConsciousness being a first person experience, can never be verified. But Conscious behavior on the other hand is very possible. Panpsychism or Cosmic panpsychism or cosmic consciousness can all be behaviors. we can for example say that gravitational pull is possible because there is some level of consciousness in the objects. This is more of a framework to build complex conscious behavior.
@Paine137
02/16/2025 - 12:22 AMDon’t forget that consciousness is itself an idea. Panpsychism isn’t science, it’s endless word salad, led by Philip Chopra.
@jamesruscheinski8602
02/16/2025 - 12:22 AMcontinuous cosmic consciousness has subjective feeling / experience? a subjective being or existence external to physical nature, in contrast to human being internal physical body?
@jamesruscheinski8602
02/16/2025 - 12:22 AMcosmic continuous consciousness transcends physical nature in panentheistic universe?
@jamesruscheinski8602
02/16/2025 - 12:22 AMhuman awareness in the present portion of infinite time having continuous (cosmic) consciousness?
@MasoudJohnAzizi
02/16/2025 - 12:22 AMDr. Donald Hoffman, Dr. Bernard Carr, Dr. Iain McGilchrist, and Dr. Rupert Sheldrake are among a growing body of scientists that also subscribe to the philosophy of #panpsychism rather than that of #physicalism.