Workshop # 30, Emergence of Mind, Series 10, (S8,21b)
This event begins 7.30 pm S'pore & WA time, 11.30 am UK, 6.30 am NY.

**You will need to view the relevant podcast** below on YouTube before joining the meeting in order to participate in the discussion.
[https://youtu.be/N8SHB-QbUoQ](https://youtu.be/N8SHB-QbUoQ)
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The workshops include of a prior presentation of the topic by myself on YouTube. The meeting itself consists of a brief review of the topic followed by questions and discussion. The weekly topic is posted a week before the event, together with a suggested reading from my work The Pursuit of Value, available through Amazon Books or myself. Transcripts of the Youtube presentation are available by email.

**THIS WEEK**: To explain the origins of mind, panpsychism holds that consciousness is everywhere and in everything. But panpsychism is problematic because properties of consciousness like sentience, cognition and intentionality are not properties of the physical world. Joseph Levine speaks of an “explanatory gap”. David Chalmers famously coined the “hard problem”. Panprotopsychism can address these problems by proposing properties that are not themselves forms of consciousness but give rise to consciousness. Is panprotopsychism thereby a more viable way of explaining the emergence of mind from matter? Reading: The Pursuit of Value, Ch. 6, Scn. vi.

Derek Mazzone

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