[ExI] Science or Scientism?

[William Flynn Wallace]

 ask any panpsychist) determined that the sum total of all objects
(including humans as well as inanimate objects) had some sort of
consciousness as well.   will

It would appear that panpsychists fall very far from the circle of
scientists - no harm in that unless you start believing in ideas without
data.  Or maybe it's the "since humans had the idea, it must have some
validity" way of deciding things.

Consciousness without communication is worthless.

   bill w

On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 4:35 PM Will Steinberg <steinberg.will at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Or, conversely, maybe they noticed that human bodies decayed into an
> inanimate object--dirt--and also that humans are conscious and experience
> qualia, and so (perhaps not in a completely unfounded manner, ask any
> panpsychist) determined that the sum total of all objects (including humans
> as well as inanimate objects) had some sort of consciousness as well.
>
> Modern humans love to pretend ancient humans were stupid--as if humans
> 1000 years from now (if extant) won't think the same about us.
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