What is academic twitter going to argue about when the Great Arendt Syllabus Debate wanes?
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Replying to @jasonintrator
Just so long as we don’t go back to panpsychism, I’ll be good.
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Replying to @SisyphusRedemed
Panpsychism? I hear it’s very plausible nowadays, as
@Philip_Goff has nicely explained in his debates with@smithbarryc and others.3 replies 0 retweets 11 likes -
Indeed,
@Philip_Goff is a kind and patient scholar... who happens to subscribe to a preposterous belief. But hey, what philosopher worth their salt doesn't subscribe to at least one preposterous belief, right?2 replies 0 retweets 9 likes -
I’m just not really sure how consciousness is supposed to just “emerge”. The little things have to be conscious too.
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Funny you should mention it,
@Philip_Goff has kindly agreed to speak at our online lab meeting on Tues, where we’ll try to find out what emerges from what. Though I want to hear more about the pan psycho approach to Arendt1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes -
Replying to @smithbarryc @jasonintrator and
What if consciousness doesn’t emerge, and it’s just a dynamic perspectival representation of how an organism is situated in the world, and what it needs to do to maintain vitality...
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Replying to @NeuroYogacara @smithbarryc and
A way an organism has of looking at things, as it were. And would that way the organism has of looking at things be a physical property of that organism?
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Replying to @jasonintrator @smithbarryc and
Orienting toward things, not always looking at them, but I assume that it’s nothing more or less than a biological process...
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Replying to @NeuroYogacara @smithbarryc and
Do biological processes have an orientation from a de se perspective?
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I think so; indeed, I argue in Mind in Life that this is constitutive of biological life.
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Replying to @evantthompson @NeuroYogacara and
I don’t think it’s at all implausible, but that’s the direction one has to go. Looking forward to checking out Evan’s discussion!
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Replying to @jasonintrator @evantthompson and
As I see it, you can either work from the bottom, to tell a biological story about why critters possess the capacities they do for registering, responding, and balancing needs against on another, and you can see consciousness as playing an important role in that process 1/2
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