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micro-experience
Also known as: micro-experiences, microexperience, micro-experience, microexperiences
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Resolving the evolutionary paradox of consciousness link.springer.com Apr 1, 2024 7 facts
claimStrong emergence, as defined by Chalmers (2006), occurs when processes at lower levels of organization, such as micro-experiences, give rise to new macro-experiences that are fundamentally undeducible from lower-level facts.
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.
claimIn Russellian panpsychism, macro-experiences can be considered adaptations either because they are constituted of micro-experiences with causal powers, or because they are emergent properties that exert downward causation on lower-level processes, similar to interactionist dualism.
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.
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.
The Hard Problem of Consciousness | Springer Nature Link link.springer.com 4 facts
quoteDavid Chalmers formulated the combination problem as follows: "[...] how do microexperiences combine to yield macro-experiences? It is at least very hard to see how a number of separate experiences had by separate entities could combine to yield a distinct experience had by a composite entity. It is especially hard to see how they could combine to yield the distinctive kind of macroexperience that we find in our own case."
claimThe deflation of awareness suggests that consciousness can be interpreted as the awareness of qualities, potentially allowing an explanation of how microexperiences constitute awareness to solve the combination problem.
claimDavid Chalmers notes the possibility of non-constitutive forms of panpsychism, which suggests that while microexperience and macroexperience exist, the microexperience does not ground the macroexperience.
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.
Non-physicalist Theories of Consciousness cambridge.org Dec 20, 2023 4 facts
claimEmergent panpsychism allows for the view that complex consciousness includes a simple, distinct subject causally produced by a collection of microexperiences.
claimConstitutive panpsychism implies that complex consciousness is a collection of microexperiences in physical relations, rendering it as disunified as physicalism suggests.
claimProponents of the phenomenal bonding view argue there is no epistemic gap between microexperiences related by a physical relation with the intrinsic nature of co-consciousness and a unified macroexperience.
claimThe fusion view of consciousness posits that when micro- or protoconscious particles combine, their individual micro- or protoexperiences merge into a single, unified macroexperience, causing the original micro-experiences to cease existing as individuals.
Critique of Panpsychism: Philosophical Coherence and Scientific ... thequran.love May 7, 2025 1 fact
perspectiveCritics worry that panpsychism merely postpones the mystery of consciousness unless it can demonstrate a credible route from micro-experience to macro-experience.
Consciousness, Physicalism, and Panpsychism - R Discovery discovery.researcher.life May 1, 2013 1 fact
claimIn Russelian panpsychism, the combination problem arises from the difficulty of understanding how macroexperience emerges from microexperience.