Horgan: Okay, maybe I have been too critical. But can you tell readers, briefly, why they should take panpsychism seriously?
Mørch : Physicalism and dualism are the two main alternatives to panpsychism.
Physicalism implies that consciousness doesn’t exist. Physical science cannot capture what it’s like for someone to have conscious experiences, such as seeing red or being in pain, or any of the qualitative or subjective features of consciousness. So if consciousness is physical, it’s not qualitative or subjective, and therefore not really consciousness after all.
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