Episode 19, Body, Mind and Consciousness (Part II)
The Panpsycast Philosophy Podcast
Jack Symes | Andrew Horton, Oliver Marley, and Rose de Castellane
4.8 • 612 Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2017
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
All the reading can be found at www.thepanpsycast.com! Please tweet us your thoughts at www.twitter.com/thepanpsycast. For Episode 19, I'm joined by Gregory Miller and Dr Thom Atkinson from the University of Liverpool. As well as introducing the questions and problems surrounding consciousness and mind; we'll be discussing substance dualism, materialism and panpsychism. Part I. Substance Dualism (09:20), Part II. Materialism (33:45), Part III. Panpsychism (00:10 in Part II), Part IV. Further Analysis and Discussion (16:40 in Part II). Make sure you've subscribed to us on iTunes to get new episodes as and when they're released! Thank you, we hope you enjoy the episode!
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| 0:00.0 | Part 3. Panpsychism. Our inquiry question, what is panpsychism? Right, so the name of the podcast, the pan-sicast, |
| 0:23.3 | often when we've asked people if we can interview them, like, it's A.C. Grayling's PA replied and |
| 0:28.5 | said, he wants to know if you're pan-psychists. You know, we have to explain to him that it's just |
| 0:32.6 | the word we're using to give the show, pan, meaning all or everywhere, psyche, meaning obviously psyche and mind |
| 0:39.1 | and consciousness and cast, casting everywhere. So that's the grounds of the name, you know, |
| 0:43.5 | casting psyche everywhere or something like this. People often think we're pan-psychists, |
| 0:47.7 | and we actually haven't given a definition of what pan-psychism is. People are interested. |
| 0:52.6 | It's been 19 episodes, and we haven't said what pan-psychism is, people are interested. It's been 19 episodes and we haven't said what panpsychism is lucky enough to have Gregory Miller today, who is actually a panpsychist. |
| 1:00.0 | As you can tell by the joke at the start, that's just me pointing in the direction of a criticism. |
| 1:05.0 | Personally, I think panpsychism is a great theory in response to the heart problem of consciousness, |
| 1:11.8 | but I wear my heart on my sleeve there. Greg, what is panpsychism? |
| 1:16.3 | Well, in episode 19, I'm proud to announce that panpsychism is the view that all things have a mind or a mind-like nature. |
| 1:26.1 | Now, the question, what are we mean by all? Well, we usually |
| 1:30.3 | just mean all concrete things, so not abstract phenomena, concrete phenomena. What do we mean by |
| 1:37.0 | soul? Well, we didn't mean the kind of soul that you were talking about in the first section, |
| 1:41.7 | Jack, when you were talking, discussing Plato, but we mean the consciousness, the thing that Descartes was on about. |
| 1:48.7 | We mean phenomenal consciousness. |
| 1:50.9 | So we get the view that all concrete objects instantiate phenomenal properties. |
| 1:57.7 | So I take an atom, right? |
| 1:59.5 | Where's the phenomenal property there? What, what is it inside it? |
| 2:02.8 | Is it like its essence, or is it just like an addition to the atom? Is it a separate substance |
| 2:09.0 | phenomenal properties for panpsychism? Or is it just the same as? Oh, good question, Jack. |
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