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Mind and Matter - Panpsychism, Dual-Aspect Monism, and the Combination Problem (Paperback, 1st ed. 2018)
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Mind and Matter - Panpsychism, Dual-Aspect Monism, and the Combination Problem (Paperback, 1st ed. 2018)
Series: SpringerBriefs in Philosophy
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In this book, the author takes a stand for a variant of panpsychism
as being the best solution available to the mind-body problem. More
exactly, he defends a view that can be labelled
'dual-aspect-pan-proto-psychism'. Panpsychism claims that mentality
is ubiquitous to reality, and in combination with dual-aspect
monism it claims that anything, from fundamental particles to
rocks, trees, and human animals, has two aspects: a physical aspect
and a mental aspect. In short, the view is that the nature of
reality is 'phental' (physical-mental). But this does not mean,
according to the author, that rocks and photons think or have
conscious experiences, in the sense in which human animals have
experiences. This is where pan-proto-psychism enters the picture as
being a better theoretical option, where the mental aspects of
fundamental particles, rocks, and trees are not experiential. Many
hard questions arise here. In this book, Benovsky focuses on the
combination problem: in short, how do tiny mental aspects of
fundamental particles combine to yield macro-phenomenal conscious
experiences, such as your complex experience when you enjoy a great
gastronomic meal? What makes the question even harder is that the
combination problem is not just one problem, but rather a family of
various combination issues and worries. Benovsky offers a general
strategy to deal with these combination problems and focuses on one
in particular - namely, the worry concerning the existence of
subjects of experience. Indeed, if standard panpsychism were true,
we would need an explanation of how tiny micro-subjects combine
into a macro-subject like a human person. And if panprotopsychism
is true, it has to explain how a subject of experience can arise
from proto-micro-mental aspects of reality. Benovsky shows that
understanding the nature of subjectivity in terms of the growingly
familiar notion of mineness in combination with an eliminativist
view of the self, allows us to have a coherent picture, where this
type of combination problem is avoided, without throwing the baby
out with the bathwater.
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