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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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[–] itsPina@hexbear.net 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah but present pain only seems to really matter if it entails future pain as well. Thats a great Zen Buddhist trick I learned many years ago: you aren't afraid of pain: you're afraid of future pain. Current pain is already happening and you're already bearing it.

If I am constantly feeling present pain, but completely incapable of acknowledging the past, I cannot ground my present pain in any relative sense.