micropsychism
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[edit]micropsychism (uncountable)
- (philosophy) The 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.
- 2013, Uriah Kriegel, Current Controversies in Philosophy of Mind, →ISBN:
- 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, Michael Blamauer, The Mental as Fundamental: New Perspectives on Panpsychism, →ISBN:
- According to Strawson, micropsychism is a position similar to property dualism insofar as it takes mentality to be a fundamental property of physical systems.
- 2015, Edwin C. May, Sonali Bhatt Marwaha, Extrasensory Perception: Support, Skepticism, and Science, →ISBN:
- Either materialism, dualism, neutral monism, or micropsychism provides the best explanation of consciousness.