Panpsychism in the West by Skrbina David;

Author:Skrbina, David;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: philosophy of mind; cognitive science; consciousness; history of philosophy; cognition; brain; Western; panpsychist; nature of mind; theory
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2017-10-20T04:00:00+00:00

The “very vast [mental] slowness in inorganic Nature,” such as in a rock or a solar system, is no less extant that our own mentality. Time scale is entirely arbitrary, and therefore slower is not lesser. The Mind in nature is fully conscious. Hence, a mental life is to be found everywhere:

Where we see inorganic Nature seemingly dead, there is, in fact, conscious life, just as surely as there is any Being present in Nature at all. And I insist, meanwhile, that no empirical warrant can be found for affirming the existence of dead material substance anywhere. (240)

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