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Tables or telephones are made out of physical matter of course,

and they don't experience pain or see colours.

We humans too are made out of physical matter and we know that the stuff out of which we're created somehow gives rise to or constitutes consciousness and subjective experience.

For there's something it is like to be me. I feel pain, see blue, smell

roses. So what about the table or telephone since they're made of exactly the same stuff?

Might it be possible that something similar could be said about at least some of the particles that make up a table or telephone?

Might there be something it is like to be a particle in a table?

Crazy, absurd, the philosopher Galen Strossen argues that this

conclusion may in the end be hard to resist. Gailen Strossen, welcome to

philosophy Bites. P Pleased to be back.

The topic we're going to focus on is panpsychism.

Now that's quite an exotic theory.

I wonder if you could just sketch what it is.

Well, there are many versions.

You could also call it equally well pan-experientialism.

It's the idea that everything that exists is somehow experience involving. Well, that is

how I think, that's how I take panpsychism.

The idea that everything that exists is somehow experience involving.

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