panpsychism

She wants to apologize to all carrots who are watching her video — but carrots are not watching and that’s the point.

“Modern physics was founded on the separation of mind and matter.” Indeed, it was. And if that doesn’t work, materialism is dead.

Jerry Coyne is having a hard time understanding why anyone would even consider taking panpsychism seriously.

We live in a universe closer to the vision of Plato (c. 427 – 348 BC) than of Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895).

It it is very difficult to look at the natural world seriously and not see a mind in there somewhere.

Computer engineer Michel-Yves Bolloré, a lifelong Catholic, and Olivier Bonnassies, who came late to faith, argue that the universe must have had a creator.

We confuse the issue if we imply that the intelligence displayed by fungi is equivalent to that displayed by the humans who research them.

To say that consciousness is real is to say that the immaterial world is, in principle, real.

Annaka Harris seems to be fleeing eliminative materialism — the snake that eats its own tail.

As the insightful work of Corning and others has shown, the vitalist/mechanist debate in biology is nowhere near over. If anything, it’s just getting started.

The fate of the discipline of consciousness studies may depend on how committed researchers are to finding the facts.

This is a huge step by a leading contemporary academic scientist away from pure physicalism.