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emergent panpsychism

Also known as: Emergentist panpsychists

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Non-physicalist Theories of Consciousness cambridge.org Cambridge University Press Dec 20, 2023 9 facts

claimEmergent panpsychism posits that microconsciousness causally produces macroconsciousness.

claimSubstance dualism, subjective idealism, and emergent panpsychism may have an advantage in accommodating unity arguments against physicalism, provided that the deflationary view of subjects is rejected.

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.

claimEmergent panpsychism allows for the view that complex consciousness includes a simple, distinct subject causally produced by a collection of microexperiences.

claimEmergent panpsychism asserts that complex consciousness is causally produced by fundamental consciousness, meaning complex consciousness is a distinct effect of fundamental consciousness.

claimEmergent panpsychism faces a problem regarding the explanatory role of macroconsciousness because the microphysical structure of the brain or other systems would already be realized by microconsciousness, leaving no extra physical structure to be produced by macroconsciousness.

claimEmergent panpsychism is compatible with the existence of an epistemic gap because it treats microconsciousness and macroconsciousness as distinct cause and effect, which implies an ontological gap.

claimEmergent panpsychism is compatible with the deflationary view of subjects if it posits that only complex consciousness emerges, without a simple, distinct subject.

Resolving the evolutionary paradox of consciousness link.springer.com Springer Apr 1, 2024 4 facts

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.

perspectiveIt is argued that emergent panpsychism requires less explanatory work to bridge the gap between micro-experiences and macro-experiences than dualism requires to bridge the gap between purely physical entities and macro-experiences.

claimEmergent panpsychism shares similarities with dualism in that it requires the postulation of undiscovered laws to explain how specific arrangements of micro-experiences yield macro-experiences.

claimNon-constitutive or emergent panpsychism posits that macro-experience is a strongly emergent phenomenon arising from specific arrangements of micro-experiences.

Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Jul 18, 2017 4 facts

claimEmergentist panpsychists define 'emergent' properties of a complex system as fundamental macro-level properties, which may or may not be intelligibly derived from the properties of the system's parts.

referenceGodehard Brüntrup authored 'Emergent Panpsychism', published in the 2016 volume 'Panpsychism' edited by Brüntrup and Jaskolla.

claimPanpsychist emergentists are committed to a less radical form of emergence than non-panpsychist emergentists because the emergent entities are of the same kind as the micro-level entities from which they emerge.

claimWilliam Seager (2016) and Hedda Hassel Mørch (2014) independently defended a non-layered form of panpsychist emergentism known as fusionism.