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"Conservative naturalists are straight physicalists—nothing exists but the physical, and the physical is characterized by all and only the properties of a completed physics (and perhaps chemistry, if chemistry cannot be reduced to physics). By contrast, moderate naturalists differ from conservative naturalists in that they expand their conception of the natural world so as to include abstract objects (e.g., propositions, properties, possible worlds, etc.). Finally, liberal naturalists differ from moderates and conservatives in that they not only admit into their ontology of the natural world the abstracta of the moderates, but they also allow for concreta that have more properties and powers than the conservatives and moderates allow. Examples of liberal naturalism include Spinozism and Russellian monism (also known as panprotopsychism)."
Is God the Best Explanation of Things? Felipe Leon & Joshua Rasmussen (p. 91)
Sentientism Interview: youtu.be/e9iuwVIXDZc
What is Naturalism? youtu.be/4G-WJCI85oQ
Linktree https://linktr.ee/emersongreen
"Conservative naturalists are straight physicalists—nothing exists but the physical, and the physical is characterized by all and only the properties of a completed physics (and perhaps chemistry, if chemistry cannot be reduced to physics). By contrast, moderate naturalists differ from conservative naturalists in that they expand their conception of the natural world so as to include abstract objects (e.g., propositions, properties, possible worlds, etc.). Finally, liberal naturalists differ from moderates and conservatives in that they not only admit into their ontology of the natural world the abstracta of the moderates, but they also allow for concreta that have more properties and powers than the conservatives and moderates allow. Examples of liberal naturalism include Spinozism and Russellian monism (also known as panprotopsychism)."
Is God the Best Explanation of Things? Felipe Leon & Joshua Rasmussen (p. 91)










![Has Physics Debunked Panpsychism? Answering Sabine Hossenfelder
Theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder recently published a widely-cited critique of panpsychism. Hossenfelder argues that physics has ruled out panpsychism. However, her article is mired in confusion, and one doesn’t need to be a panpsychist to notice.
Read her criticism, Electrons Don’t Think, here: http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/01/electrons-dont-think.html
“Why do the Deniers ignore a long line of distinguished materialist predecessors and ally themselves with Descartes, their sworn enemy, in holding that experience can’t possibly be physical—thereby obliging themselves to endorse the Denial? The answer appears to be that they share with Descartes one very large assumption: that we know enough about the physical to be certain that experience can’t be physical.”
- Galen Strawson
“What a physiologist sees when he examines a brain is in the physiologist, not in the brain he is examining.”
- Bertrand Russell
“[M]aterialism ... is the philosophy of the subject who forgets himself in his calculation.”
- Schopenhauer
Transcript: https://emersongreenblog.wordpress.com/2020/03/30/has-physics-debunked-panpsychism-answering-sabine-hossenfelder/
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00:00 Introduction
01:47 Hossenfelders critique
04:12 Two interpretations of her critique
09:47 Unfalsifiable or falsified?
11:29 Further points of confusion evident in Hossenfelders critique Has Physics Debunked Panpsychism? Answering Sabine Hossenfelder](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/BUIWW_2afBU/mqdefault.jpg)