Most materialists treat consciousness as a mystery. Some of them think the only thing to do is to deny its existence. Others admit it’s real, and conclude that it ‘emerges’ from wholly and utterly non-conscious matter when that matter gets complicated enough (e.g. in our brains). Join the philosopher whose work revived interest in panpsychism, Galen Strawson, as he rejects the idea that such emergence is possible, and concludes that physical matter must have been conscious all along.
"A rare beacon of common sense in an ocean of intellectual eccentricity." – Philip Goff
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