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The Ecology of Magic--David Abram
The Ecology of Magic--David Abram

There are two ways of developing the basic panpsychist position. One is micropsychism, the view that the smallest parts of the physical world have consciousness. Micropsychism is not to be equated with the absurd view that quarks have emotions or that electrons feel existential angst. In human beings, consciousness is a sophisticated thing, involving subtle and complex emotions, thoughts and sensory experiences. But there seems nothing incoherent with the idea that consciousness might exist in some extremely basic forms. We have good reason to think that the conscious experience of a horse is much less complex than that of a human being, and the experiences of a chicken less complex than those of a horse. As organisms become simpler, perhaps at some point the light of consciousness suddenly switches off, with simpler organisms having no experience at all. But it is also possible that the light of consciousness never switches off entirely, but rather fades as organic complexity reduces, through flies, insects, plants, amoeba and bacteria. For the micropsychist, this fading-while-never-turning-off continuum further extends into inorganic matter, with fundamental physical entities – perhaps electrons and quarks – possessing extremely rudimentary forms of consciousness, to reflect their extremely simple nature.

Is Matter Conscious? - Issue 47: Consciousness - Nautilus
Is Matter Conscious? - Issue 47: Consci…
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Scientists say your "mind" isn't confined to your brain, or even your body
Scientists say your "mind" isn't confin…
Slime Mold
by Sam Hart
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Ant Encounters: Interaction Networks and Colony Behavior (Primers in Complex Systems)
Ant Encounters: Interaction Networks an…
Beyond humans, what other kinds of minds might be out there? - Murray Shanahan | Aeon Essays
Beyond humans, what other kinds of mind…
Plant Cognition & Agency
by Lukas W
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