atheism basically believes that matter isn't panpsychic, or isn't conscious unless it has a brain. but a brain is not necessary for consciousness. electromagnetism is necessary.
so if matter doesn't have consciousness, then why are their atheists? why are their brains? why are their electrical impulses in the brain? electrical impulses in neural networks?
what if consciousness is both a hardware(materialism) and software(panpsychism) thing in relationship to the environment it appears in?
kind of like the particle/wave of light.
And a radical change it truly is. Philosophers and neuroscientists often assume that consciousness is like software, whereas the brain is like hardware. This suggestion turns this completely around. When we look at what physics tells us about the brain, we actually just find software—purely a set of relations—all the way down. And consciousness is in fact more like hardware, because of its distinctly qualitative, non-structural properties. For this reason, conscious experiences are just the kind of things that physical structure could be the structure of.
Given this solution to the hard problem of matter, the hard problem of consciousness all but dissolves. There is no longer any question of how consciousness arises from non-conscious matter, because all matter is intrinsically conscious. There is no longer a question of how consciousness depends on matter, because it is matter that depends on consciousness—as relations depend on relata, structure depends on realizer, or software on hardware.
so if matter doesn't have consciousness, then why are their atheists? why are their brains? why are their electrical impulses in the brain? electrical impulses in neural networks?
what if consciousness is both a hardware(materialism) and software(panpsychism) thing in relationship to the environment it appears in?
kind of like the particle/wave of light.
And a radical change it truly is. Philosophers and neuroscientists often assume that consciousness is like software, whereas the brain is like hardware. This suggestion turns this completely around. When we look at what physics tells us about the brain, we actually just find software—purely a set of relations—all the way down. And consciousness is in fact more like hardware, because of its distinctly qualitative, non-structural properties. For this reason, conscious experiences are just the kind of things that physical structure could be the structure of.
Given this solution to the hard problem of matter, the hard problem of consciousness all but dissolves. There is no longer any question of how consciousness arises from non-conscious matter, because all matter is intrinsically conscious. There is no longer a question of how consciousness depends on matter, because it is matter that depends on consciousness—as relations depend on relata, structure depends on realizer, or software on hardware.
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