Simon McGregor - University of Sussex, UK
Biography
Title: The Case For “Pansolipsism”
Abstract: I describe a novel conceptual approach to the scientific study of embodied minds, which concerns itself with the relations between different embodied agents. The underlying intuition is that there are “gaps” between minds, corresponding to the difficulty involved in translating from one cognitive “reference frame” to another. In this framework, there is no limit on how alien one mind can be to another. This allows for a nuanced form of panpsychism, in which very few physical systems can be understood as possessing minds that are meaningfully “accessible” to humans, but every physical system can potentially be understood as possessing a mind “in the abstract”.
