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constitutive panpsychism
Also known as: constitutive panpsychists
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Non-physicalist Theories of Consciousness cambridge.org Dec 20, 2023 10 facts
claimConstitutive panpsychism posits that macroconsciousness is constituted by microconsciousness or micro-entities possessing microconsciousness that are related in specific ways.
claimThere is a distinction between constitutive and emergent panpsychism.
claimThe distinction between constitutive and emergent panpsychism is central to the 'combination problem,' which is a major objection to dual-aspect monism.
claimConstitutive panpsychism implies that complex consciousness is a collection of microexperiences in physical relations, rendering it as disunified as physicalism suggests.
claimPanprotopsychists who define the nature of the protophenomenal, such as panqualityists, face the same epistemic gap problem as constitutive panpsychists.
claimConstitutive panpsychism asserts that complex consciousness is constituted by fundamental consciousness, meaning complex consciousness is not distinct from the structure of fundamental consciousness.
claimCritics argue that the 'decombination' process in cosmopsychism is as difficult to explain as the combination process in constitutive panpsychism.
referencePhilip Goff, Godehard Brüntrup, and Benedikt Jaskolla (2016) proposed the 'phenomenal bonding view' as a response to the combination problem in constitutive panpsychism.
referencePhilip Goff (2017) argues that cosmopsychism provides a better explanation for how macroconsciousness is constituted by parts of a larger cosmic mind than constitutive panpsychism does for how it is constituted by simpler minds.
claimConstitutive panpsychists may address unity arguments by adopting the 'deflationary view of subjects,' which defines the unity of consciousness as the specific relations between experiences.
Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Jul 18, 2017 5 facts
referenceDavid Chalmers (2015) distinguishes between constitutive and non-constitutive forms of panpsychism based on the relationship between fundamental consciousness and the consciousness observed in humans and animals.
claimConstitutive micropsychism is a form of constitutive panpsychism asserting that all facts are grounded in or constituted by consciousness-involving facts at the micro-level, implying that the smallest parts of a brain possess basic forms of consciousness.
referenceThe chapter "Against Constitutive Panpsychism" by Philip Goff was published in the book edited by Alter and Nagasawa in 2015, pages 370–400.
claimConstitutive cosmopsychism is the view that all facts are grounded in or realized by consciousness-involving facts at the cosmic level, resulting from a combination of priority monism and constitutive panpsychism.
claimConstitutive panpsychism is the view that facts about human and animal consciousness are not fundamental, but are grounded in, realized by, or constituted of facts about more fundamental, micro-level consciousness.
The Hard Problem of Consciousness | Springer Nature Link link.springer.com 4 facts
perspectiveThe author posits that constitutive panpsychism is the most promising ontological framework for a naturalist theory of consciousness, particularly when compared to the oddness and logical problems of alternative approaches.
claimConstitutive panpsychism faces the 'problem of constitution', which requires explaining how nano-consciousnesses of quanta merge into the consciousnesses of cells, and subsequently into the consciousnesses of macro-organisms.
claimDavid Chalmers observes that the combination problem and its subproblems apply to all versions of constitutive panpsychism, including panprotophenomenal interpretations.
claimConstitutive panpsychism posits that macroexperiences, such as those had by bats and human beings, are the result of a particular structural arrangement of microexperiences had by microphysical entities.
Resolving the evolutionary paradox of consciousness link.springer.com Apr 1, 2024 4 facts
perspectiveConstitutive panpsychism has an advantage over physicalism because it suggests an organism is directly acquainted with its brain state via a phenomenal constitutive relation.
claimRussellian panpsychism, in both its constitutive and emergent versions, does not a priori predict specific patterns of associations between fitness contingencies and experiential characters, and therefore fails to explain the observed adaptive-seeming correlations.
perspectiveGoff (2015) argues that constitutive panpsychism is implausible because it is difficult to imagine how the aggregation of micro-experiences into macro-experiences would function.
claimConstitutive panpsychism, an approach to the combination problem identified by Chalmers (2015), posits that the micro-experiences of basic entities aggregate to form macro-experiences.
Panpsychism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2025 Edition) plato.stanford.edu May 23, 2001 1 fact
claimAccording to constitutive panpsychism, the fact that a human is conscious wholly consists in the fact that certain particles in the human brain are arranged or interacting in a specific way.