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The Quest to Solve Problems That Don’t Exist: Thought Artifacts in Contemporary Ontology [PDF]

open access: yesStudia Humana, 2017
Questions about the nature of reality and consciousness remain unresolved in philosophy today, but not for lack of hypotheses. Ontologies as varied as physicalism, microexperientialism and cosmopsychism enrich the philosophical menu.
Kastrup Bernardo
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IS IT POSSIBLE THAT ROBOTS WILL NOT ONE DAY BECOME PERSONS?

open access: yesZygon, 2023
That robots might become persons is increasingly explored in popular fiction and films and is receiving growing academic analysis. Here, I ask what would be necessary for robots not to become persons at some point.
Michael J. Reiss
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AN INTRODUCTION TO PANSPIRITISM: AN ALTERNATIVE TO MATERIALISM AND PANPSYCHISM

open access: yesZygon, 2020
This article is an introduction to a philosophical approach termed “panspiritism.” The fundamental principles of this approach are summarized, with discussion of how it links to earlier (mainly Eastern) philosophical perspectives, how it differs from ...
Steve Taylor
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Psychedelics alter metaphysical beliefs [PDF]

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
Can the use of psychedelic drugs induce lasting changes in metaphysical beliefs? While it is popularly believed that they can, this question has never been formally tested.
Christopher Timmermann   +5 more
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Monadic panpsychism

open access: yesSynthese
AbstractOne of the main obstacles for panpsychism, the view that consciousness is fundamental and ubiquitous, is the difficulty of explaining how simple subjects could combine to form complex subjects. Known as the subject combination problem, it poses a possibly insurmountable challenge to the view.
Nino Kadic
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A Critique of the Argument for Panpsychism through Refutation of the Emergence of Consciousness [PDF]

open access: yesPizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2022
Panpsychism, as opposed to physicalism and dualism, offers a third way to explain consciousness. According to panpsychism, some fundamental physical entities have conscious states.
MohammadJavad Elahieasl, Mahdi Zakeri
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A Reply to S Siddharth’s ‘Against Phenomenal Bonding’

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 2022
In this journal S Siddharth has recently argued that the phenomenal bonding response to the subject summing argument for panpsychism is question begging, therefore we should reject constitutive forms of panpsychism.
Gregory Miller
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Spinoza’nın Bilinç Teorisi: 'Fikrin Fikri', Bilinçte Derece Farkları ve 'Kendilik Bilinci'

open access: yesHitit İlahiyat Dergisi, 2022
Spinoza sisteminde bir bilinç teorisinin varlığı konusunda dünden bugüne devam etmekte olan ciddi bir tartışma mevcuttur. Bu makale, bir yandan mevcut tartışmanın hafifletilebilmesi için farklı bir okuma teklifi sunmakta, diğer yandan ise söz konusu ...
Enes Dağ
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Fusions of Consciousness

open access: yesEntropy, 2023
What are conscious experiences? Can they combine to form new experiences? What are conscious subjects? Can they combine to form new subjects? Most attempts to answer these questions assume that spacetime, and some of its particles, are fundamental ...
Donald D. Hoffman   +2 more
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