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I’m beginning to realise that in the UK philosophical canon Whitehead took up the radical empirical monism I associate with James, Bergson, Northrop and Pirsig, and which is seeing a resurgence in those increasingly rejecting a material metaphysics underlying the physical world. New-realists like Smolin, the new-panpsychists like Kastrup, Tononi and the Integrated Information Theorists … Continue reading “The Process Ontology of Whitehead’s Metaphysics”

In my humble opinion, The universe is made of mental stuff, therefore real physical stuff “must be” an illusion. … is just as lazy as … The universe is made of real physical stuff, therefore mental stuff “must be” an illusion. They’re just an example of a fake binary choice. The long-running choice between idealism … Continue reading “Res Informatica may be “Information Realism?.”

Interesting set of unrelated conversations throwing-up unexpected connections in the past week. After the recent exchange on pan-psychism ended with Massimo Pigliucci conceding …. I like res informatica. a bit less speculative than panpsychism. — Massimo Pigliucci (@mpigliucci) January 6, 2019 …. I found in my reading of Mumford in connection with Russell’s metaphysics as … Continue reading “Dual Aspect Monism”

I have a lot of time for Massimo (Pigliucci) and have found Bernardo (Kastrup) at least interesting and provocative recently in his speculative output. A fascinating “flame-war” broken out on Twitter since Massimo published a “scathing” criticism of a recent Bernardo paper. A paper with an amazingly click-baity “question” for a headline it has to … Continue reading “Pigliucci vs Kastrup on Panpsychism”

Prompted by this click-bait headline on Pan-Psychism from Philip Goff in Aeon magazine. “Panpsychism is crazy, but it’s also most probably true.” “… physics tells us nothing about the intrinsic nature of the entities it talks about, and indeed that the only thing we know for certain about the intrinsic nature of matter is that … Continue reading “The Integral Information of Pan-Proto-Psychism”