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Re: Panpsychism and Thermodynamics, Explored

(Submission to the book, Philosophy and Evolution )

Note added in proof:
As a work in progress introducing it's present status, emphasis is on dimensional units; kg, m, and sec, But kg/ sec as growth and kg/sec2 as stimulation are not usual in Physics. Mass and time are ubiquitous. Biophysics will require "something missed"!

Rigden's book on Hydrogen21 lists six experimental measurements...

Reported at a local AAPT meeting on 11/10/07, googling "panpsychism" raised no hits in 1999, 700 in 2002, 40,000 in 2005, and 86,000 in 2007. With so much attention arising, I wonder whether any physicalist approach is(?) fruitful. With life defined as a simple "awareness", that is, between self and otherness, observed and observer, etc. it seems to imply the concept(s) of Heisenberg's principle. Extending this idea, "mass" or "energy" at any level is "aware"...