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This article by Steve Taylor brings up yet another explanation for consciousness. While the idea of Panspiritism is interesting all that we talk about consciousness is not based on any evidence. This includes the great ideas like Brahman in Indian thought. We can only go by intuitive faith in accept...

The article due to Bartley considers physicalism is wrong. But I think physicalism can not be dismissed and we should be open to physicalism. Two points I like to make in this regard are 1 There is no mental experience if there is no brain. The brain and mind are intimately connected. 2 In some simp...

I found the article by Carlo Filice interesting I have a couple of points to make.Firstly the author raised the issue of levels of reality. I wish to suggest that several realities can coexist and so all levels are real. For example in an automobile, engine, piston, chassis are all real and so is th...

The article dealt with physicalism that has an independent methodology. But there are several issues of science which for the present at least are incapable of being answered. Quantum enigma is a case in point. When science wonders whether observer is affecting the physical outcome from double slit ...

Panpsychism as proposed in this article by Philip Roff attributes simple consciousness to a fundamental particle like electron. Double slit experiment with say electrons shows that wave-particle duality exists. Wave behaviour is found when observation is not made from which slit the particles emerge...

I have just joined the Philosophy forum and glad to have done so. I am a retired research engineer attracted to the problem of consciousness and related areas.Hope to interact with those interested