Consciousness, Revelation, and Confusion
Dialectica April 5, 2023 Luke Roelofs
Critics have charged constitutive panpsychism with inconsistency. Panpsychists reject physicalism for its seeming inability to explain consciousness. In making this argument, they commit themselves to the idea of "revelation": that we know, in some especially direct way, the nature of consciousness. Yet they then attribute properties to our consciousness---like being constituted out of...