He also grants the common - sense view that a human corpse is a dead thing as a human body, but he still makes his panpsychistic point by insisting that even a corpse is composed
of many living things and, as far as our
knowledge runs, nothing else.29 In addition, he
claims that his belief that there is only a relative and not an absolute distinction between mind and matter is given support by recent developments in
physics that have shown that the differences between matter and various kinds
of radiation are differences
of degree and not
of kind.