Commenter highlights author's broader challenge to folk psychology
4 Sep 18 10:05 AM · 5d ago · 5 comments · 1 source · development 4 of 6
A commenter notes that the paper's author (identified as Eric) consistently challenges conventional psychological assumptions and suggests the argument need not be read as supporting panpsychism per se but rather revealing problems with how we define consciousness.
“The cool thing about Eric and his work is that he consistently challenges "folk psychology" in ways that aren't just doom and gloom.”
jhickokEric Schwitzgebel Philosophy paper author
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The cool thing about Eric and his work is that he consistently challenges "folk psychology" in ways that aren't just doom and gloom. I think the best way to understand his argument in the paper isn't as supporting panpsychism necessarily since the proliferation of "consciousness" might be because it's cheap and easy to get like an illusionist[0]…
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An onotlogical pivot I experienced in my late teens was recognizing that the taxonomy of life is not some immutable fact that we're uncovering. It's this Sisyphean task of providing structure to something that is everchanging. It's never complete, never correct, but it's often useful. In that way it's a lot like unicode!When thinking about the…
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I'm not clear where the line is between individual agents acting in their own interests, which may involve more or less abstract experiences of cooperation and mutuality, and a direct awareness of self.You don't need something the size of a country to show the problem. If one person starts a business they have an awareness of the business as a…
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No individual wrote the Constitution. It was a collective effort. Yet it has features of a work we would expect from a consciousness, such as a view of itself as embedded in a larger historical context. I don't have a hard time seeing that document as a form of speech emitted by a conscious collective. And not knowing exactly how human individual…
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