A Panpsychist Hypothesis (General)

by David Turell , Saturday, June 14, 2014, 15:11 (3603 days ago) @ dhw

dhw:This surprised and secretly pleased me, but in response to my challenge, David modified his statement later:
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> DAVID: I think God [...] has planned out all the quantum particles that drop out of the plasma and form constituents of matter. These particles have an automatic way of falling together, as they consistently do it the same way as shown by particle physics results. They are in concise families with definite ways of acting.
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> dhw: Since our most difficult problem is to explain the complexities of life and consciousness, I'm going to put David's first statement ("doesn't require intelligence") together with his second, concerning "an automatic way of falling together". This is what most of us would call "natural law", and if this is how matter consistently behaves when it comes into existence, there is indeed no requirement for intelligence.-You can't get rid of initial intelligence which set up the 'natural law' to allow the automatic falling together. I still stick with intelligence first.