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by HeuristicsCG 604 days ago
it's commonplace to hold the opinion that an individual particle is slightly conscious
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n4r9 603 days ago
Are you referring to pansychism? I don't get the impression that it's very popular these days.

> There are few explicit defenders of panpsychism at the present time. The most prominent are David Griffin, Gregg Rosenberg, David Skrbina and Timothy Sprigge.

https://plato.stanford.edu/ARCHIVES/WIN2009/entries/panpsych...

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ronjobber 604 days ago
This is a thing... but it is certainly not commonplace.
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HeuristicsCG 603 days ago
In philosophy of mind it's not something that would raise an eyebrow
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