psychon

plural psychons

1. A hypothetical unit of consciousness.

   Thirty years later, in his book How the Self Controls Its Brain (Springer Verlag, 1994), [John] Eccles posited that the “mind” produces “psychons” (i.e., fundamental units of consciousness, a term previously mostly used in cheesy science fiction) […]

   2023, Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will, New York: Penguin, →ISBN