Pansychism (Introduction)

by dhw, Saturday, September 28, 2013, 14:01 (4075 days ago)

DAVID: More help for dhw thought patterns:-http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/magazine/18wwln-lede-t.html?_r=1&-Once again, thank you for your integrity and generosity of spirit. Not many folk would draw attention to articles that seriously consider hypotheses of which they themselves disapprove.-This is an excellent article. What I like most about it is that the author presents the theory entertainingly, but without slanting it in any particular direction. Of course panpsychism, like the intelligent cell theory, does not in any way preclude divine design (most forms of panpsychism in fact seem to link it to some kind of God), but clearly Nagel was toying with an atheist concept. Why not? It's as feasible and as non-feasible as any other hypothesis.