psychon

English

Etymology

From psycho- +‎ -on.

Noun

psychon (plural psychons)

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

     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) […]

Derived terms

• psychonic

Translations

particle of consciousness

• German: Psychon (de) n
• Russian: психон (psixon)
• Ukrainian: психон (psyxon)