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When I was in graduate school, I recall hearing “One starts as a materialist, then one becomes a dualist, then a panpsychist, and one ends up as an idealist”.I don’t know whe
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But perhaps the problem is not that insects lack an inner life, but that they don’t have a way to communicate it in terms we can understand. It is hard for us to prise open a window into
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I want to summarize below, in language accessible to anyone, the key points of the philosophy explicated in much more detail in those books. So
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