Galen Strawson on Panpsychism

Описание: Is there something that it is like to be an electron? That sounds implausible. Yet Galen Strawson believes this is the best explanation of how things are.

Specifically, Galen offers his view on physicalistic panpsychism (though there are non-physicalistic panpsychisms as well). He argues something like this, it seems to me:

First, Galen assumes (very plausibly) that experiential phenomena are real phenomena, opposed to illusory. Now:

1. If radical emergentism is true, then experiential phenomena emerges from wholly and utterly non-experiential phenomena.
2. But experiential phenomena cannot emerge from wholly and utterly non-experiential pheneomena.
3. So radical emergentism is false. [1, 2]
4. If radical emergentism is false, then experiential phenomena must already exist in some sense and to some extent as a feature of physical stuff to give rise to experiential phenomena in an intelligible way.
5. So experiential phenomena must already exist in some sense and to some extent as a feature of physical stuff to give rise to experiential phenomena in an intelligible way. [3, 4]

In other words, consciousness has been a feature of the universe since the Big Bang.

For sustained and scholarly treatment of panpsychism, see Galen Strawson's paper, "Realistic Monism": http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&...

Link to Philosophy Bites interview with Galen Strawson: http://philosophybites.com/2012/05/ga...

This audio-clip is not mine but rather is borrowed from Philosophy Bites. Link to Philosophy Bites: http://philosophybites.com/