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Everything, Living Or Not, Is Constituted From Elements Having A Nature That Is Both Physical And Nonphysical - That Is, Capable Of Combining Into Mental Wholes. So This Reductive Account Can Also Be Described As A Form Of Panpsychism: All The Elements Of The Physical World Are Also Mental.
-Thomas Nagel
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Everything, Living Or Not, Is Constituted From

Thomas Nagel
Everything, Living Or Not, Is Constituted From Elements Having A Nature That Is Both Physical And Nonphysical - That Is, Capable Of Combining Into Mental Wholes. So This Reductive Account Can Also Be Described As A Form Of Panpsychism: All The Elements Of The Physical World Are Also Mental.
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