Here’s a prediction: in fifty years, further investigation in the brain will reveal the causal dynamics in the brain associated with consciousness to be strongly emergent, that is to say not reducible to underlying chemistry and physics. This rules out the materialist view that everything can be ultimately reduced to fundamental physics. At that point, the choice will be between naturalistic dualism and panpsychism (unless the former is ruled out because the partial reductionist picture described above is confirmed).14 As a result of the greater simplicity and elegance of panpsychism over
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