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apeiron
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Tam Hunt said:I admire Chalmers greatly, and Hameroff and Penrose. But none of these guys have thought as deeply as Whitehead or Griffin - so please do check out their work before you condemn panexperientialism.
There is a lot to like about Whitehead's process approach. Though Peirce did it much better. Griffin however is just another theology academic grasping at straws.
Positing consciousness as a property of matter does nothing to explain it. And people who think it might always turn out not to have a very good knowledge of the basics of neurology or psychophysics. Consciousness does not even look the way they describe it.
The hard problem can only exist if you believe that consciousness "exists" - rather than indeed being a (complex) process.