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21 - Élan Vital and Panpsychism

21 - Élan Vital and Panpsychism

Walden Pod

March 25, 202012m 55s

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Show Notes

Is panpsychism the modern élan vital? Though many opponents of panpsychism have drawn the comparison, élan vital is a terrible analogy for consciousness and panpsychism. I’ve noticed that vitalism comes up frequently in discussions about consciousness. I think the lazy analogy that’s often drawn between the panpsychist and vitalist projects needs to be examined.

Thomas Nagel - What is it like to be a bat? [PDF]

Hylozoism [Wikipedia]

David Chalmers on the vitalism analogy: https://twitter.com/mrstevetweedale/status/1320866551583494144?s=21 

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