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A possible quantum basis of panpsychism [PDF]
, 2003 We show that consciousness may violate the basic quantum principle, according to which the nonorthogonal quantum states can't be distinguished. This implies that the physical world is not causally closed without consciousness, and consciousness is a ...
Gao, Shan
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Contingent Grounding Physicalism
Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT It is widely held that physicalism is incompatible with the metaphysical possibility of zombies, i.e., beings physically just like us yet lacking in phenomenal consciousness. The present paper argues that this orthodoxy is mistaken. As against the received wisdom, physicalism is perfectly compatible with the possibility of zombies and zombie ...
Alex Moran
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European Journal of Analytic PhilosophyPanpsychism, the view that phenomenal consciousness is present at the fundamental physical level, faces the subject combination problem––the question of whether (and how) subjects of experience can combine.
Siddharth S
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Experience and Time: A Metaphysical Approach
Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT What is the temporal structure of conscious experience? While it is popular to think that our most basic conscious experiences are temporally extended, we will be arguing against this view, on the grounds that it makes our conscious experiences depend on the future in an implausible way.
David Builes +1 more
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No Ontological Leaps: A Primer on Scientific Materialism [PDF]
Integral Review, 2011 When the issue is intelligence in nature, arguments about whether science supports neo-Darwinian theory or intelligent design miss the point. The details of evolution or the structure of the brain are irrelevant because biology and neuroscience have ...
Christian de Quincey
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Consciousness and Cosmos: Building an Ontological Framework [PDF]
, 2018 Contemporary theories of consciousness are based on widely different concepts of its nature, most or all of which probably embody aspects of the truth about it. Starting with a concept of consciousness indicated by the phrase “the feeling of what happens”
Nixon, Greg +3 more
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Alignment of the Starlings: Learning With Generative AI
Future Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2026.ABSTRACT I will argue that answers to normative questions concerning the place of generative AI in learning rest on answers to ontological questions regarding (1) precisely what is happening when a human ‘interacts’ with generative AI and (2) What is distinctive about organic learning as opposed to currently existing ‘machine learning’ (3) What is the ...
Sean Watson
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Is Consciousness Intrinsic?: A Problem for the Integrated Information Theory [PDF]
, 2019 The Integrated Information Theory of consciousness (IIT) claims that consciousness is identical to maximal integrated information, or maximal Φ. One objection to IIT is based on what may be called the intrinsicality problem: consciousness is an intrinsic
Mørch, Hedda Hassel
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Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Volume 43, Issue 1, Page 78-82, January/February 2026.ABSTRACT The short essay makes a case that a post biological world will be a devolution. Sentience is a relational process linked with the awe and wonder we experience in relation to one another and our shared habitat. The voiceless need to be protected by extending solidarity on the basis of sentience—a normative plea, but also on the basis of ...
J. J. McIntyre‐Mills
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, 2021 Quantum mechanics accounts well for behavior of objects, but what does it mean for the actual nature of things? That is difficult within physicalism. Panpsychism can help, and even provides possibilities for quantum-neurologic modeling of conscious experience.
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