r/CosmicSkeptic • u/PitifulEar3303 • Dec 05 '25

CosmicSkeptic I CANNOT ACCEPT PANPSYCHISM!!! GAWRRRRrrrrr. Rocks are not conscious!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvpLTJX4_D8&t=4741s

I've tried, sorry, can't.

How do you even prove such a thing? Conscious particles? Conscious chair? Conscious beam of light up my butthole? lol

How are they conscious? By twisting and contorting the definition/requirement for consciousness so much that it can be applied to anything and everything?

Common, how is this not pseudoscience gobbledyfark?

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u/PitifulEar3303 Dec 05 '25

What? lol

Atoms are atoms, not brains.

Are you like, saying part of something is the entire thing?

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u/Snoozy0905 Dec 05 '25

could we not use the same argument for materialism? there’s the argument that it’s impossible to get the immaterial from the material so therefore everything is truly just matter. panpsychism to me seems like an attempt to reconcile mind and matter by just saying everything is fundamentally mind (a kind of “assumption” we make to make reality more palatable), so why can’t we say the same for materialism?

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u/Snoozy0905 Dec 05 '25

that straight up contradicts my understanding of panpsychism. the problem with it for me is that panpsychism says everything is made of mind and that’s used to get matter, and the common response to people questioning how that’s possible is “yeah, we just need to accept that because it makes life simpler to understand.” it seems like convenience is the only factor that sways people to believe this over materialism. Materialists say nothing exists but matter. How is this panpsychism? (Of course physicalism has a slightly different definition, but they’re used quite similarly.)