schism in the Tightpussism church after sections of the Western Clergy point out Acetaminophen or Ibuprofen can harm gains, and thus must be anathema to the holy workout-grindset, and the Eastern Matriarchy contends that the sacred process of pursuing piety of incessant Autism trumps physicalism

No metaphysical view explains anything. Rather, it first provides a theoretical foundation upon which explanations can be built.
Neither panpsychism nor physicalism constitutes an exception in this regard.

I quite like the concept of physicalism, it has a place in fiction, and also (like panpsychism) in metaphysics, but how can we disprove it?

The answer: we can't disprove any metaphysical theory until our physics is complete enough to determine it, assuming it ever is.

Science must first prove machine consciousness is possible or that it exists somewhere. One can't simply assume from a belief in "physicalism" that machine consciousness is possible, one must show the mechanism for it. We cannot do that yet, so we can't assume that machine #consciousness is coming.

The reason was that the Spinozist analysis of how cognition works is not compatible with physicalism and neuroscience.

Raven, M. (2004). What physicalism could be

Advances a grounding-based formulation of physicalism that exploits a distinction between circumstantial and acricumstantial facts, and examines how this approach might address the problem of whether grounding facts are physical or non-physical

I do sometimes need to be reined in, but I’m grateful that we can discuss these things without automatically assuming physicalism. From your vantage point, as someone well attuned to the scientific world, do you also sense a growing openness to the possibility

My #BookReview of The Idea of the World: A Multi-Disciplinary Argument for the Mental Nature of Reality, by Bernardo Kastrup

#idealism #physicalism #philosophy #BernardKastrup #Booksky

...via evolution by natural selection. Dualism cleaves the world with a binary knife, and philosophers quibble. But the world of atoms, objects, events, life and mind are all part of a tangled hierarchy. If physicalism doesn't take into account the dynamic emergence of patterns that beget more...

Can you summarize? I am hearing the battle of the isms here (vitalism, functionalism, physicalism, dualism, etc.). They're all barking up their own trees. The truth is in the forest. In my opinion, mind and all things emergent are ultimately grounded in "real patterns" that came into being...

A posteriori Russellian physicalism has been revealed in my new paper forthcoming in the AJP, check it out! philpapers.org/rec/BOTAPR-2

For instance, even in his later writings, Fodor defends 'physicalism' and believes the mind is physical BUT rejects the idea that the mind can be 'grounded' in specific physical or chemical processes. In other words, mainstream functionalism is far more dualistic than many forms of vitalism.

in my own musings on Consciousness, i’ve similarly been curious abt the possibility of axing certain “isms” but keeping others, like physicalism, albeit with some caveats
(warning, blatant speculation in attached image)

i also enjoyed hearing lauren caution against reductionism, while still carving out a place for a kind of physicalism that doesn’t exaggerate its place on the explanatory continuum

books by faculty include:

children who remember previous lives
beyond physicalism
and
reincarnation & biology volume 1: birthmarks

Yes, I like David Deutsch’s physicalism though. By his account, math is complex and autonomous (it kicks back in Boswell’s sense) and thus is real

Why would that be a problem for physicalism?