What is exactly the problem with panpsychism?

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Publication date 2022
Journal The Behavioral and brain sciences
Article number e57
Volume | Issue number 45
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences (SILS)
Abstract Merker et al.'s critique calls for a deeper analysis of panpsychism. In principle, the concept of integrated information can be applied to photodiodes and subatomic particles, but I suggest the main obstacle is the lack of any evidence to confirm the presence of consciousness. Also MRW's perspectivalist theory illustrates the difficulties in synthesizing a full-fledged theory of consciousness.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X21001916
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