75 - Why panpsychism is counterintuitive
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I give three reasons why panpsychism typically strikes us as counterintuitive, and why we shouldn't credit our innate bias against it.  David Papineau: Physicalists who find panpsychism counterintuitive haven’t truly freed themselves from dualist thinking  Jonathan Birch on overconfidence about sentience This episode was available early to supporters at patreon.com/waldenpod Linktree
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