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by brendev 1019 days ago
An interesting read for sure, thanks for posting!

I did notice that it referred Spinoza as if his views were in opposition to Panpsychism.

Spinoza actually proposed that God(consciousness) exists within all things, and that studying physics and the nature of the universe is to study the psychology of God.

Like he's literally mentioned on the SEP page for Panpsychism [1]

I see where chatGPT would get confused. Spinoza is identified as a Rationalist, which is generally more aligned towards determinist thought.

Looking at it, I wonder if perhaps Spinoza's views are already in alignment with both Deterministic and Panpsychist thoughts (which, as others have mentioned, are not inherently mutually exclusive anyway).

[1]https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/panpsychism/