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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Replying to @NeuroYogacara @evantthompson and
To go back to the original point - if biological processes involve de se perspectives, isn’t this panpsychism, or a version thereof?
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Replying to @jasonintrator @NeuroYogacara and
It's biopsychism (Ernst Haeckel's term) but not necessarily panpsychism. The idea is that you need the kind of self-individuation of living processes for sentience; minus that, physical processes lack sentience.
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Replying to @evantthompson @NeuroYogacara and
Got it. Very close to panpsychism, depending on whether you emphasize the self aspect or the conscious feel aspect I suppose.
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Replying to @jasonintrator @NeuroYogacara and
But motivated by very different questions and methods from panpsychism, especially in its currently popular form, which is based on so-called intuitions about transparency (which, to my mind, are utterly unreliable)
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Replying to @evantthompson @NeuroYogacara and
Right, completely. I myself am much more sympathetic to thinking about the centrality of perspective, so I’m really looking forward to your arguments.
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Replying to @jasonintrator @evantthompson and
Even: Curious to know what you mean by 'transparency intuitions', and why you think they're unreliable.
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Replying to @Philip_Goff @jasonintrator and
I mean the belief that you know the essence of your phenomenal state just by attending to it and thinking about it in terms of how it feels. I don't think such metacognitive activities disclose essences or are reliable guides by themselves to how things are
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Replying to @evantthompson @Philip_Goff and
how would you put this in Husserlian terms?
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For phenomenologists, every experience is constituted through networks of interlocking intentionalities and inner and outer horizonal structures (sorry for the jargon), so no experience has an immediately introspectible essence
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Replying to @evantthompson @Philip_Goff and
ah. i see your point now. i was tripping on thinking you were describing a barrier to useful reflective access per se. all on board now. tnx!
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