2026-04-14 12:32 UTC
@michaelgemar@cosocial.ca @dyckron@cosocial.ca
I'd say the 'wetness' analogy fails because wetness is structural: it’s just how atoms move. Consciousness is qualitative; it’s the 'view from within.' You can’t derive a 'feeling' from an 'arrangement' without some sort of a bridge.
Panpsychists say: by making experience fundamental, like gravity they avoid the 'miracle' of subjectivity emerging from dead matter.
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@michaelgemar@cosocial.ca 2026-04-14 13:15
@tchambers@indieweb.social @dyckron@cosocial.ca “You can’t derive a 'feeling' from an 'arrangement' without some sort of a bridge.” — Isn’t that simply the “hard problem”? It seems to me like panpsychism just punts on how subjectivity arises, rather than actually tackle it.