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The Soul of Stones: Panpsychism and the Consciousness of Everything

You look at a rock. It is grey, inert, silent. It has been sitting in the same spot for perhaps thousands of years, doing nothing, feeling nothing, being nothing. This is the assumption. The rock is a thing. You are a person. The difference is consciousness. But what if the assumption is wrong? What if […]

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Protoconsciousness: The Ghost We Pretend to See in the Quantum Machine

Faced with the Hard Problem of Consciousness—the chasm between objective brain processes and subjective experience—science grows desperate. It cannot locate the theater of the mind within the wetware of the brain. So, it does what human inquiry has always done when confronted with an insoluble mystery: it externalizes it. It proposes that consciousness is not an

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