I do not believe that I am a disembodied spirit, somehow magically tied to this body. What I do believe is that this existence, in and of itself, along with our innate power of reason, will provide all that we need to learn about our world, who we are, our role in it, and how it is that we have come to be consciously aware of it at all. Consciousness is our foundation. Consciousness is our raison d'etre. Consciousness is…
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consciousness hard problem metaphysics ontic modalism panprotopsychism panpsychism
(Re)Introducing Neutral Monism
Neutral monism is the position that everything that exists is all of a single ontologically fundamental type. There is just one fundamental type of thing in all existence; and that thing either includes the…