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What do you think of panpsychism/the hard problem of consciousness? (hexbear.net)

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Personally I think it's silly as hell. Qualia is obviously a biological component of experience... Not some weird thing that science will never be able to put in to words.

I've been listening to a lot of psychology podcasts lately and for some reason people seem obsessed with the idea despite you needing to make the same logical leaps to believe it as any sort of mysticism... Maybe I am just tripping idk

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[–] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Does it though? Despite the overwhelming spread of psychology, I don't think people are on the whole 'getting better'. Now, I don't think that is exclusively psychology's fault, but I do think that there are large elements of the human experience that are not addressed by psychology, and moreover, the replication crisis has shown that psychology is better understood as a roughly systemic discipline than a heuristic one.

Psychology is still bound to the material determinations that makes it a practicing profession.

One could say the same thing of meditation and zen, but that doesn't mean it has a heuristic aspect to it.