Support for Panexperientialism

s33:

Good answer from someone on Quora:

Yes, obviously.

Why obviously?

Well, first of all, where is the “disconnect” and what is it made of? Specifically, the disconnect that must occur if some parts of reality are “conscious” while others aren’t. And don’t get me started on the nonsense superstition of “emergent properties” — show me one “emergent property” that is independent of the conscious observer coming to the conclusion it is emergent.

Secondly, as physicists are now starting to realize (or realise if you’re English/Australian):

Let’s start with Prof. Freeman Dyson:

“Quantum mechanics makes matter even in the smallest pieces into an
active agent, and I think that is something very fundamental. Every
particle in the universe is an active agent making choices between
random processes.”2

“…consciousness is not just a passive epiphenomenon carried along by the chemical events in our brains, but is an active agent forcing the molecular
complexes to make choices between one quantum state and another. In
other words, mind is already inherent in every electron.”3

Physicist Sir Arthur Eddington

“Physics is the study of the structure of consciousness. The “stuff” of the world is mindstuff.”

and

“It is difficult for the matter-of-fact physicist to accept the view that the substratum of everything is of mental character.”

Physicist Prof. Richard Conn Henry

“In what is known as a “Renninger type experiment,” the wave function is collapsed simply by a human mind seeing nothing. No irreversible act of amplification involving the photon has taken place—yet the decision is irreversibly made. The universe is entirely mental.”

Prof. Amit Goswami

“we have a new integrative paradigm of science, based not on the primacy of matter as the old science, but on the primacy of consciousness. Consciousness is the ground of all being…”1

Then of course, we have been reminded by sages throughout history of this basic element:

All phenomena are projections in the mind.
—The Third Karmapa

Matter is derived from mind, not mind from matter.
—The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation

The list goes on.

I’ll gladly support panpsychism/panexperientialism any day.

Source: s33