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8 pages in length. Panpsychism has long been the object of fierce debate with regard to its validity. Thomas Nagel was the driving force behind the principles of panpsychism; as such, it is his reasoning at which this paper looks to
challenge the theory. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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scientific/philosophical respectability and tended to lose whatever respectability it possessed as the scientific understanding of the world expanded" (Seager CONSC_INFO_PANPSY.html). Thomas Nagel was the driving force behind the principles
of panpsychism; as such, it is his reasoning at which this paper looks to challenge the theory. I. NAGELS VIEWPOINT Nagels viewpoint on panpsychism stems from four primary premises: material
composition, nonreductionism, realism and non-emergence. In short, Nagel argued that if there is no reducible quality with regard to consciousness, then there exists no basis for explanation of its
appearance "at a certain level of physical complexity merely in terms of that complexity" (Seager CONSC_INFO_PANPSY.html). Therefore, in the conspicuous absence of radical emergentism, it has been surmised that
one would "be naturally driven" (Seager CONSC_INFO_PANPSY.html) to panpsychism. Nagels assertion that these four premises constitute the fundamental foundation of mans conscious being has been challenged time and time
again for what some believe to be faulty reasoning. Based upon these premises, one can readily refute the validity of Nagels theory with the help of such disbelievers as
William James, whos 1890 Principles of Psychology "vigorously scourges the view he derisively terms the minddust theory" (Seager CONSC_INFO_PANPSY.html) and questions the very existence of the panpsychist theory of consciousness.
"Take a sentence of a dozen words, and take twelve men and tell to each one word. Then stand the men in a row or jam them in
a bunch, and let each think of his word as intently as he will; nowhere will there be a consciousness of the whole sentence. We talk of the spirit
of the age . . . but we know this to be symbolic speech and never dream that the spirit . . . constitute[s] a consciousness other than, and additional
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