Can you imagine a world in which it is Politically Incorrect to say “Stop objectifying me”? The retort will be, “Don’t be so anthropocentric. Objects are also people.” Panpsychism—the idea that everything in the universe has a personality and experiences something like pleasure and pain—is an ancient idea, but one we get to taste anew through Pixar and Disney films which show us worlds of talking cars and singing candlesticks. In academia, pop fantasies are rebranded with highfalutin terms like
Are Objects Also People?
Are Objects Also People?
Are Objects Also People?
Can you imagine a world in which it is Politically Incorrect to say “Stop objectifying me”? The retort will be, “Don’t be so anthropocentric. Objects are also people.” Panpsychism—the idea that everything in the universe has a personality and experiences something like pleasure and pain—is an ancient idea, but one we get to taste anew through Pixar and Disney films which show us worlds of talking cars and singing candlesticks. In academia, pop fantasies are rebranded with highfalutin terms like