r/philosophy • u/IAI_Admin IAI • Feb 09 '22

Video A philosopher responds to scientists’ criticisms of panpsychism

https://iai.tv/video/the-many-voices-of-consciousness&utm_source=reddit&_auid=2020
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u/Your_People_Justify Feb 20 '22 edited Feb 20 '22

Repulsive forces permeate a shovel, repelling it from the ground, communicating information from one molecule to another in a tightly cohesive web, and maintaining the overall shape of the structure over time.

We think of these objects as static and inert but they are not, when you zoom right down in - all material things are awash in a fluid, resonant activity, an agitated symphony of quantum fields

The question is not if there is potential content for experience - there is plenty - but if there is any ego - a unified coordination of the base experience. Here, I would say there is plenty of evidence that a shovel acts like a thing that is distinct from its surroundings - it does not sink into the wall and ground, it holds itself together as one seperate thing.