Pros And Cons Of Panpsychism
(4) Choose EITHER Idealism OR Panpsychism. What are the arguments in favor of the view? What are its main flaws? Is it a viable and persuasive strategy for resolving problems in consciousness?
Wei Yang
Introduction In an attempt to solve the beautiful mystery of consciousness, pansychists proposed that consciousness is a feature of the fundamental particles. By proposing that consciousness is fundamental, panpsychism fits into the framework of modern science nicely, and it is a hypothesis that is worth to test. In this paper, I will first lay out the groundwork for why we should accept the view of panpsychism, then introduced the Integrated Information Theory (IIT) to support panspyschism as we laying out the problems, and finally I will …show more content…
I know that I am conscious, and based on my observation of you, you may as well also be conscious. Conscious is so close to us that we experience (and thus conscious) almost every moment when we are awake. But what is consciousness? How does the firing of neurons give rise to my consciousness? How does my brain process information? Professor David Chalmers labeled the first two as “hard problems”, while the last one is an “easy problem”. In the last two decades, tons of resources have been poured into scientific researches of conscious. We now have a really good sense of how certain areas of the brain are associated with a certain conscious experiences, the findings have been helping us tackle many of the “easy problems”, but they barely scratch the surface of the “hard …show more content…
It is true that different parts of our brain are associated with different experience, we can have a part our brain doing logical reasoning, and another part controls our emotions. But the conscious feeling of depressed when we are working on math proofs cannot really explain by any parts of our brain alone, because the feelings are integrated; and once it is integrated, it will not be making any sense to think that different parts of our brain are doing separate thinking, it is our brain, as a single integrated system, that is doing the thinking. So this supports the commonly accepted version of panpsychism that consciousness is a feature of some systems and the fundamental particles (which is required for the construction of
Wei Yang
Introduction In an attempt to solve the beautiful mystery of consciousness, pansychists proposed that consciousness is a feature of the fundamental particles. By proposing that consciousness is fundamental, panpsychism fits into the framework of modern science nicely, and it is a hypothesis that is worth to test. In this paper, I will first lay out the groundwork for why we should accept the view of panpsychism, then introduced the Integrated Information Theory (IIT) to support panspyschism as we laying out the problems, and finally I will …show more content…
I know that I am conscious, and based on my observation of you, you may as well also be conscious. Conscious is so close to us that we experience (and thus conscious) almost every moment when we are awake. But what is consciousness? How does the firing of neurons give rise to my consciousness? How does my brain process information? Professor David Chalmers labeled the first two as “hard problems”, while the last one is an “easy problem”. In the last two decades, tons of resources have been poured into scientific researches of conscious. We now have a really good sense of how certain areas of the brain are associated with a certain conscious experiences, the findings have been helping us tackle many of the “easy problems”, but they barely scratch the surface of the “hard …show more content…
It is true that different parts of our brain are associated with different experience, we can have a part our brain doing logical reasoning, and another part controls our emotions. But the conscious feeling of depressed when we are working on math proofs cannot really explain by any parts of our brain alone, because the feelings are integrated; and once it is integrated, it will not be making any sense to think that different parts of our brain are doing separate thinking, it is our brain, as a single integrated system, that is doing the thinking. So this supports the commonly accepted version of panpsychism that consciousness is a feature of some systems and the fundamental particles (which is required for the construction of