{"id":152113,"date":"2022-12-07T21:23:26","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T03:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/beyond-physicalism"},"modified":"2022-12-07T21:23:26","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T03:23:26","slug":"beyond-physicalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/beyond-physicalism","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Physicalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/beyond-physicalism.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Horgan: Okay, maybe I have been too critical. But can you tell readers, briefly, why they should take panpsychism seriously?<\/p>\n<p>M\u00f8rch : Physicalism and dualism are the two main alternatives to panpsychism.<\/p>\n<p>Physicalism implies that <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/cross-check\/is-consciousness-real\/\">consciousness doesn\u2019t exist<\/a>. Physical science cannot capture what it\u2019s like for someone to have conscious experiences, such as seeing red or being in pain, or any of the qualitative or subjective features of consciousness. So if consciousness is physical, it\u2019s not qualitative or subjective, and therefore not really consciousness after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Horgan: Okay, maybe I have been too critical. But can you tell readers, briefly, why they should take panpsychism seriously? M\u00f8rch : Physicalism and dualism are the two main alternatives to panpsychism. Physicalism implies that consciousness doesn\u2019t exist. Physical science cannot capture what it\u2019s like for someone to have conscious experiences, such as seeing red [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}