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Pan. Sikhism and Pan Protest. Sikhism, David J. To Illness. One introduction hand Sikhism Taken literally, is the doctrine that everything has a mind in practise. People who call themselves Pant cyclists are not committed to add strong a doctrine. They're not committed to the thesis that the number two has a mind or that the Eiffel Tower has a mind, or that the city of Kibera has a mind, even if they believe in the existence of numbers, towers and cities. Instead, we can understand pants. Ike is, um, as the thesis that some fundamental physical entities have mental states. For example, if corks or photons have mental states that suffices for pants, Ike is, um, to be true. Even if rocks and numbers do not have mental states, perhaps it would not suffice for just one photon to have mental states. The line here is blurry, but we can read. The definition is requiring that all members of some fundamental physical types all photons, for example, have mental states for present purposes the relevant sorts of mental states. Our conscious experiences. I will understand pan Sikhism as the thesis that some fundamental physical entities are conscious, that is that there is something it is like to be 1/4 or a photon or a member of some other fundamental physical type. This thesis is sometimes called pan experiential ism to distinguish it from other varieties of pan Sikhism varieties on which the relevant entities are required to think or reason, for example. But I will simply call it Pan Psych is, um here Pan. Sikhism is sometimes dismissed as a crazy view, but this reaction on its own is not a serious objection. While the view is counterintuitive to some, there is good reason to think that any of you of consciousness must embrace some counter intuitive conclusions. Furthermore, intuitions about Pan's Ike is, um, seem to vary heavily with culture and with historical period. The view has a long history in both Eastern and Western philosophy, and many of the greatest philosophers have taken it seriously. It is true that we do not have much direct evidence for pants. Ike is, um, but we also do not have much direct evidence against it, given the difficulties of detecting the presence or absence of consciousness in other systems. And there are indirect reasons of a broadly theoretical character for taking the view seriously. In this article, I will present an argument for patent Sikhism. Like most philosophical arguments, this argument is not entirely conclusive, but I think it gives reason to take the view seriously. Speaking for myself, I am by no means confident the pants, I presume, is true. But I'm also not confident that it is not true. This article presents what I take to be perhaps the best reason for believing pans. Ike is, um, a companion article. The combination problem for Pan Sikhism presents what I take to be the best reason for disbelieving pants. Ike is, um I call my argument The Hague alien argument for pants. Ike is, um this is not because Hagel was a pants I kissed. He seems to have been far from it, perhaps, except insofar as he believed in a world soul, which suggests a sort of cosmos. Ike is, um, the view that the world as a whole is conscious. Rather, my argument takes the dialectical form often attributed to Hagel the form of thesis antithesis synthesis. In my high Gillian argument, the thesis is materialism. The antithesis is dualism, and the synthesis is pants. Ike is, um, the argument for the thesis is the causal argument for materialism and against dualism. The argument for the antithesis is the conceive ability argument for dualism on against materialism. Synthesised thes yield. The Hague Alien argument for pants Ike is, um, in effect. The argument presents the two most powerful arguments for and against materialism on dualism and motivates a certain sort of pants. Ike is, um, as a view that captures the virtues of both views on devices of neither. It turns out that the Hey Gillian argument does not support only pants. Ike is, um It also supports a certain sort of pan party psych ism, roughly the view that fundamental entities are proto conscious, that is, that they have certain special properties that are precursors to consciousness and that can collectively constitute consciousness in larger systems. Later, in the article, I will examine the relative merits of pan Sikhism and Pan protest Sikhism and examined problems that arise for both