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• The "combination problem" in twenty-first-century panpsychism literature is inspired by William James's objections to the "mind dust" theory.
• William James's objections to the 'mind dust' theory in 'The Principles of Psychology' serve as the inspiration for the 'combination problem', which is a central focus of twenty-first-century literature on panpsychism.
• William Seager argues in his 1999 book that there is a mode of combination in quantum mechanics that goes beyond what William James allows and has an affinity with psychological notions through non-causal information exchange.
• William James's development of the combination problem presupposes a metaphysics of part-whole reductionism, where the properties of a whole are merely the sum or combined effect of the properties of its parts, and the parts retain their identities.
• The term "combination problem" was coined by William Seager in 1995, though William James may have been the first to articulate the problem in 1895.
• The research article titled 'Consciousness, Physicalism, and Panpsychism' (published December 30, 2020) introduces William James's philosophy of mind, specifically examining his views on panpsychism, neutral monism, and the combination problem.
• The combination problem in panpsychism, which relates to the binding problem, was traced to William James but was given its current name by William Seager in 1995.
• William James argued that a 101st feeling created by the combination of 100 original feelings would be a totally new fact, stating: "the 100 original feelings might, by a curious physical law, be a signal for its creation, when they came together; but they would have no substantial identity with it, nor it with them, and one could never deduce the one from the others, or (in any intelligible sense) say that they evolved it."
• William James raised the 'combination problem' as an objection to panpsychism, arguing that it still faces a problem of emergence.