A Panpsychist Hypothesis (General)

by dhw, Wednesday, June 25, 2014, 15:43 (3565 days ago) @ David Turell

GK: If the universe "learned" it may have been "child like". We are in its image?-DAVID: I think we are in the image of the universal consciousness, which I view as God, in the fact that we have our own consciousness, simple as that. How much that consciousness had to learn is the debate I'm having with DHW.-A couple of weeks ago, David, you dismissed the idea that your God had to learn, because it made him indecisive and dithering. You then dismissed the parallel with our own intelligence - "a potential that develops accumulatively through experience of things that already exist" ... because it was "an anthropomorphic analysis". Now you are saying that our own consciousness is in the image of the universal consciousness ... in which case, if we reflect your God, your God must reflect us, and an anthropomorphic analysis is a perfectly reasonable one to make. HOW MUCH he had to learn is one more admission on your part that he had to learn, from which we can proceed from your hypothesis - of first cause energy always being conscious and in possession of the necessary information - to my alternative panpsychist hypothesis that first cause energy may not have become conscious until matter gave it something to be conscious of, thereby kickstarting the learning process.


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