New article on Inoreader

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_uxxQ3l4osUmLgOcF7jXAEmergence, Consciousness & Panpsychism -

Contemporary arguments for panpsychism rest on a sea of assumptions. Many of these are shared by both proponents and opponents of panpsychism who are convinced that mental properties, or at any rate conscious mental properties, differ dramatically from physical properties, that, as Descartes put it, the mental–physical distinction is a real distinction and not merely a distinction in conception. Professor John Heil discusses some of these background assumptions, suggests that they are optional, and offers replacements meant to open up a way of understanding how conscious qualities could turn out to be part of the natural world without recourse to panpsychism.

This talk was given in 2015 at Durham University, as part of the Institute of Advanced Study's Fellow's Seminar on emergence.