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Plate tectonics provided evidence and made predictions which can be tested. The pseudoscience of panpsychism can't provide evidence, nor experiments to prove or falsify it. Saying that everything is conscious is a huge claim, it can't be accepted just for the goodness of our hearts.



You should read more about how plate tectonics (and many currently accepted scientific theories) were received contemporaneously.




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