I just recently had a conversation about my stance favoring panpsychism with someone who thinks panpsychism is mistaken. We dove into what we meant by “consciousness” and it became clear that we didn’t actually disagree about anything other than how we used the word “consciousness”, with me using it in a way to deflate consciousness down to nothing more than feedback via experience and them using it to mean something more like agency. Thankfully we were both aware of the point in this post, and were aware so deeply that we naturally worked through the confusion of words to get back to what we really meant. In the end the only thing we deeply disagreed on was what we thought was an appropriate use of the word “consciousness”.
I just recently had a conversation about my stance favoring panpsychism with someone who thinks panpsychism is mistaken. We dove into what we meant by “consciousness” and it became clear that we didn’t actually disagree about anything other than how we used the word “consciousness”, with me using it in a way to deflate consciousness down to nothing more than feedback via experience and them using it to mean something more like agency. Thankfully we were both aware of the point in this post, and were aware so deeply that we naturally worked through the confusion of words to get back to what we really meant. In the end the only thing we deeply disagreed on was what we thought was an appropriate use of the word “consciousness”.