Etymology

new mysterianism

Today it means: A philosophical position proposing that the hard problem of consciousness cannot be resolved by humans. Full definition →

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Owen Flanagan noted in his 1991 book Science of the Mind that some modern thinkers had suggested that consciousness might never be completely explained; he called these thinkers "the new mysterians" after the rock group Question Mark and the Mysterians.

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