Meanings
- uncountablehuman sciencesThe belief that the physical world is independent of the mind, and that some ultimates have experiential properties that are fundamentally necessary in the explanation of consciousness.
Either materialism, dualism, neutral monism, or micropsychism provides the best explanation of consciousness.
2015, Edwin C. May, Sonali Bhatt Marwaha, Extrasensory Perception: Support, Skepticism, and Science, →ISBN2 more examples
The resulting all-inclusive potential explanatory advantage of protophenomenalism over phenomenal micropsychism is offset by the liability that it proposes properties of which we currently have at best only a minimal conception.
2013, Uriah Kriegel, Current Controversies in Philosophy of Mind, →ISBNAccording to Strawson, micropsychism is a position similar to property dualism insofar as it takes mentality to be a fundamental property of physical systems.
2013, Michael Blamauer, The Mental as Fundamental: New Perspectives on Panpsychism, →ISBN
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