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    The assumption that thoughts are unthinking is absurd in ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The proposed escape from panpsychism — that having a thought as a part does not entail being a thinking thing — is itself absurd.

    The assumption that thoughts are unthinking is absurd in itself.

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    As if this weren’t bad enough, Parmenides goes on to derive a further absurdity from the result of combining the proposal that forms are thoughts with the Pie Model conception of partaking. Assuming that thoughts do not have parts, the only way for an object to partake of a thought in accordance with the Pie Model is for the object to get the thought as a whole. So if forms are thoughts, then according to the Pie Model everything is composed of thoughts, and hence all things think. But, Parmenid

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