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Is Matter Unconscious? Episode 5 of the Big Questions in Science Course

Episode 5: Is Matter Unconscious?

Is consciousness a mere shadow of brain activity, as the materialist philosophy assumes? How can it emerge from unconscious matter? This is called the “hard problem” in the philosophy of mind. Panpsychism provides an alternative approach. Perhaps atoms, cells, stars, and the cosmos itself are conscious, in the sense that…

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