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Physicalism can be compatible with animism: cyber animism explains animism through natural information processing and treats nature, including minds, as mathematically modelable without intentions.
Unresolved speaker · Why Leibniz Couldn't Find the Mind Inside the Mill (Joscha Bach) · 2 Nov 2026
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“So to me, physicalism is nothing that is incompatible with animism, right? There is a version of animism that is entirely physicalist, and I call this position cyber animism, which basically says that we can explain animism through information processing in nature, and nature can be understood as something that can be entirely modeled using mathematics without intentions, including minds.”1:03:35Report a misattribution
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