My Argument for Panpsychism(ish?)

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@Existism

So you are a panpsychist, I assume? In that case, do you hold to the type of idea that I described or something different?

Over the last couple days, I have been explaining what I mean to @Jay, who had been asking me about it. If I have this link right, it starts with this post and jay’s immediately after it.

AI Consciousness

That would be me. I believe consciousness is fundamental. Like mass, charge, and spin, it is a property of all particles. There are different reasons people reject this idea. One is that they cannot accept the idea that particles can have mental abilities like thoughts and awareness. But I do not equate consciousness with mental abilities. I think that’s a mistake. We have brains that do all these things, and we are conscious of them. But what we are conscious of i…