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quark

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Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Jul 18, 2017 3 facts

claimPanpsychism is often incorrectly characterized as the belief that fundamental particles like electrons or quarks possess complex mental states such as hopes, dreams, or existential angst.

claimThe panpsychist approach to consciousness proposes explaining human and animal consciousness in terms of more basic forms of consciousness that are properties of the fundamental constituents of the material world, such as quarks and electrons.

perspectivePanexperientialists argue that the complexity of conscious experience diminishes from humans to animals, plants, and finally to basic constituents of reality like electrons and quarks.

Resolving the evolutionary paradox of consciousness link.springer.com Springer Apr 1, 2024 2 facts

claimContemporary panpsychism perspectives hold that basic physical entities, such as quarks, possess subjective experience, meaning there is something it is like to be a quark.

claimThe 'combination problem' in Russellian panpsychism, as identified by Chalmers (2017a), refers to the difficulty of explaining how complex, unified human consciousness arises from the micro-experiences of fundamental entities like quarks.

Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu William Seager, Sean Allen-Hermanson · Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy May 23, 2001 2 facts

claimA person who believes that amoebas have experiences but that the quarks and electrons constituting them do not is not a panpsychist.

claimThe doctrine of the emergence of mind posits that fundamental physical entities, such as quarks, leptons, or bosons, lack mental attributes, but complex systems of these entities, such as human brains, possess mental attributes.

Hard Problem of Consciousness | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy iep.utm.edu Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy 1 fact

claimPhysical theory defines basic properties, such as the nature of a quark, in terms of their dispositions to causally interact with other entities rather than their intrinsic nature.

Panpsychism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2025 Edition) plato.stanford.edu Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy May 23, 2001 1 fact

perspectivePanpsychists propose that human and animal consciousness should be explained in terms of more basic forms of consciousness, which are postulated as properties of the fundamental constituents of the material world, such as quarks and electrons.

The Hard Problem of Consciousness | Springer Nature Link link.springer.com Springer 1 fact

claimDavid Chalmers defines panpsychism as the thesis that some fundamental physical entities, such as quarks or photons, possess mental states, even if entities like rocks or numbers do not.