John Stuart Mill defined physical objects as "permanent possibilities of sensation," meaning they are potentials for or dispositions to produce perceptions rather than collections of perceptions themselves.

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• Person: Not available Organization: Cambridge University Press
  Non-physicalist Theories of Consciousness

Sources

• Non-physicalist Theories of Consciousness www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press via serper

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• physical objects concept
• perceptions concept