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Panpsychism and emergence are deeply linked in philosophical discourse, as panpsychism is often proposed as a framework to avoid the 'problem of emergence' regarding consciousness {fact:2, 3, 7, 12}. Conversely, some theorists argue that panpsychism itself must grapple with or incorporate specific forms of emergence, such as creative synthesis or intelligible realization, to explain the combination of mental states {fact:4, 8, 9, 13, 14}.
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Panpsychism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2015 Edition) plato.stanford.edu 7 facts
perspectiveAlfred North Whitehead supported panpsychism while embracing the necessity of emergence, describing it as "the destiny of the many to enter into a novel unity, an additional reality," which implies an emergent or creative synthesis as a principle of reality.
claimPanpsychism faces a potential problem of emergence if it ascribes only unconscious mental properties to fundamental entities, as this necessitates an explanation for how conscious mental states arise.
claimPanpsychism faces a significant objection regarding how it accounts for the emergence of states of consciousness without implying an implausible and indiscriminate broadcasting of mental characteristics throughout the world.
perspectivePanpsychism disputes the intelligibility of emergence and instead attributes mentalistic properties to physically fundamental entities.
perspectiveWilliam James supported panpsychism, arguing that consciousness should be conceived in a way that avoids it appearing as the sudden emergence of a new nature that did not previously exist in the universe.
claimWilliam James raised the 'combination problem' as an objection to panpsychism, arguing that it still faces a problem of emergence.
perspectiveTo avoid the problem of emergence, panpsychists must postulate that simple elements of nature possess states of consciousness, even if those states have impoverished content.
Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu 3 facts
claimThomas Nagel argued that adopting a view like panpsychism is the only way to avoid what he termed 'emergence'.
referenceThe article "The Real Combination Problem: Panpsychism, Micro-Subjects, and Emergence" was published in the journal Erkenntnis in 2014, volume 79, issue 1, pages 19–44.
perspectiveHedda Hassel Mørch (2014) defends a form of panpsychism involving partially intelligible emergence, arguing that it is preferable to fully brute emergence.
Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu 2 facts
claimIf panpsychists ascribe only unconscious mental properties to fundamental entities, they face the problem of explaining how conscious mental states emerge from those unconscious states, which undermines the panpsychist goal of avoiding emergence.
perspectiveAlfred North Whitehead embraced the necessity of emergence within his panpsychist framework, viewing reality as a process of creative synthesis.
GWT: A Leading Consciousness Theory Depends on Information ... mindmatters.ai 1 fact
perspectiveIntegrated Information Theory may be part of a scientific trend where emergence and panpsychist theories are replacing materialist and physicalist theories.
Cross-Cultural Approaches to Consciousness: Mind, Nature, and ... books.google.com 1 fact
claim'Cross-Cultural Approaches to Consciousness: Mind, Nature, and Ultimate Reality' analyzes debates regarding consciousness, ultimate reality, emergence, mental causation, realism, idealism, panpsychism, and illusionism through the lens of East and South-East Asian philosophies, specifically Buddhism and Vedanta.
Consciousness, Physicalism, and Panpsychism - R Discovery discovery.researcher.life 1 fact
perspectivePanpsychists could potentially avoid the combination problem by endorsing an intelligible form of emergence, such as Sydney Shoemaker's account of emergence or realization, which posits the existence of 'micro-latent' powers alongside 'micro-manifest' ones.