Table of Contents
1 Material World 1
Personhood, folk psychology, and libertarian free will 4
Material world 6
Navigation chart 8
2 Consciousness 14
What is consciousness? 15
The role of consciousness 17
How extensive is consciousness? 18
Cartesian dualism 20
The hard problem 21
The mind-body problem 23
Some other theories of consciousness 24
Science and consciousness 27
3 Science 28
Scientific method and scientific progress 29
Scientific progress and reality 32
Completed physics 33
Reductionism 35
Quantum physics 37
Young's slits 39
Schrodinger's cat 41
The pragmatics of quantum mechanics 43
The Copenhagen interpretation 44
The need for an ontology 46
Conceptual foundations 50
Metaphysical assumptions 51
4 Existence 53
Four definitions of existence 54
1 Experiential existence 55
2 Empirical existence 56
3 Material existence 57
4 Mathematical existence 61
About these definitions of existence 62
Critiquing physicalism 66
Physicalism and material existence defined 67
The early universe 69
Consequences for physicalism 73
Introducing idealist panpsychism 74
5 Idealist Panpsychism 79
Panpsychism 79
Tegmark's physicalism 80
A Tegmarkian dodecahedral universe 81
Critique of Tegmark 82
Idealist panpsychism 83
A panpsychic dodecahedral universe 85
Strict idealist panpsychism 89
Mind, body, and world 92
Categorizing idealist panpsychism 94
Contrasting the dodecahedral universes 95
The scope of idealist panpsychism 96
Philosophical view points 97
Some questions and answers about idealist panpsychism 99
6 Causation 103
The problem of mental causation 104
Causal relationships among the classical, hard sciences 107
Present day and 'completed' physics 110
Causation and idealist panpsychism 113
Questions and answers about causation 114
7 Resume 119
8 Quantum Mind 126
Quantum approaches to mind 127
Predictions of idealist panpsychism 128
The character of classical theory 130
The character of quantum theory 131
The parable of the plate 136
Quantum mind and the parable of the plate 138
Idealist panpsychism and quantum mechanics 139
Free will 148
9 Pain and Suffering 149
Ana Maria 149
Daniel Dennett on pain 152
Dennett of suffering 154
Simon Weston 156
The medical profession 158
David Hodgson and pain 159
Dining out 160
10 Free Will 162
Two contrasting viewpoints 163
1 Libertarian free will (FW) 163
2 Physical system (PS) 163
Robert Kane's model of free will 165
Mind-body causation 167
Physical systems 169
Stapp and panpsychism 171
Idealist panpsychism and free will 172
A human person 175
Chemical-Man 178
Reconciliation of the FW and PS viewpoints 180
11 Sensuous Cosmos 184
Physicalism 185
Idealist panpsychism 187
Plausibility 189
A library of panpsychism 190
Berkeley's idealism 193
Some technical points 195
The hard problem revisited 198
Sailing on into uncharted waters 200
The spirit of the age 201
Credo: a personal statement 203
References 207