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The Combination Problem for Panpsychism
Abstract
This chapter explores the conceptual landscape of the most important, current critique of panpsychism—the combination problem. He sets out from the ‘locus classicus’: William James’s presentation of the combination problem in his 1890 The Principles of Psychology. He discerns three ways of formulating the problem, which evolve around three distinct characteristics of phenomenal states: the subject combination problem, the quality combination problem, and the structural combination problem. Chalmers then turns to seven subversions of these three versions. The first four are connected to the subject combination problem. Subversion five and six are connected to the quality combination problem. And the final explication is connected to the structural combination problem. The chapter closes by presenting various solutions and answers to these explications of the combination problem.
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Chalmers systematically analyzes the combination problem for panpsychism: how microexperiences could constitute macroexperience. He distinguishes subject, quality, and structure versions, turns them into several arguments against constitutive Russellian panpsychism, and surveys noncombinatorial and combinatorial responses, concluding that prospects are difficult and no solution yet commands support.
Key findings
- The combination problem breaks into at least three subproblems: the subject combination problem (how microsubjects yield macrosubjects), the quality combination problem (how microqualities yield macroqualities), and the structure combination problem (how microphenomenal/microphysical structure yields macrophenomenal structure); related problems include the unity, boundary, awareness, grain, palette, and structural mismatch problems.
- Chalmers formalizes several arguments against constitutive panpsychism, including the anti-aggregation, subject-summing, conceivability, knowledge, palette, revelation, and structural mismatch arguments; he calls the structural mismatch argument “one of the more powerful arguments against constitutive Russellian versions of panpsychism and panprotopsychism.”
- Responses divide into noncombinatorial views (emergent panpsychism, autonomous panpsychism, identity panpsychism) and combinatorial views (deflating the subject, combinatorial infusion, phenomenal bonding, deflating awareness, panqualityism); emergent panpsychism avoids the combination problem but inherits mental-causation problems akin to substance dualism, while combinatorial infusion is best understood as identity or emergent panpsychism rather than combinatorial panpsychism.
- In the conclusion, Chalmers says the most promising avenues are phenomenal bonding or quantum holism for subjects, small qualitative palettes for qualities, principles of informational composition for structure, and a deflationary account of awareness; he compares the Russellian monist’s constraints to “trying to juggle seven balls in the air with both hands tied behind one’s back.”
Methods
- This is a work of philosophical analysis, not an empirical study; it offers a systematic treatment of the combination problem, distinguishing its aspects and versions.
- The paper formalizes arguments against pan(proto)psychism, especially constitutive Russellian pan(proto)psychism, and evaluates possible replies.
- It lays out a taxonomy of responses—noncombinatorial and combinatorial—and examines their advantages and disadvantages, drawing on historical and contemporary sources such as William James, Seager, Goff, Coleman, Rosenberg, and Tononi.
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- The author states he cannot say he has either solved the combination problem or proved it unsolvable in the article as it stands.
- He states that some arguments, especially the knowledge argument, are “highly inconclusive” largely because “we know so little about what microphenomenal or protophenomenal properties are like.”
- He notes that no proposed solution has yet gained much support and that it is not clear whether the promising ideas can work together to solve all combination problems at once; evident from the text, the discussion relies on conceptual argument and intuition rather than empirical data.
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“Rosenberg is an exception: he deals with mental causation by allowing high-level individuals to exert a small amount of downward causation through interaction with the underlying entities.”
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“It is fair to say that no proposed solution has yet gained much support, however.”
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“Like substance dualism, emergent panpsychism seems to face an unattractive choice between epiphenomenalism, interactionism, and underdetermination.”
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“As a result, it is not easy to square the view with a contemporary worldview on which everything depends at least weakly on what is going on in physics, but the view is worthy of some attention.”
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“Many solutions to the combination problem that have been put forward turn out on close examination to be forms of emergent panpsychism.”
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“As with emergent panpsychism and substance dualism, these views avoid the combination and decomposition problems (at least in their hardest forms), but they face the problem of mental causation.”
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“As with emergent panpsychism and substance dualism, these views avoid the combination and decomposition problems (at least in their hardest forms), but they face the problem of mental causation.”
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“These views have to deal with a reverse version of the combination problem, which we might call the decomposition problem.”
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“I think that once it becomes clear that these solutions are subject to the same worries about mental causation as substance dualism, they lose some of their initial attractions.”
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“It seems introspectively obvious that we are aware of qualities”
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“Still, nihilist theses of this sort are so widely rejected that they do not have much dialectical force in an argument against panpsychism.”
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“If so, then no group of microsubjects necessitates the existence of a macrosubject.”
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“Although the structural mismatch argument has received relatively little attention to date, I think it is one of the more powerful arguments against constitutive Russellian versions of panpsychism and panprotopsychism.”
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- Rests on an assumption: Macrophysical structure is entirely different from the macrophenomenal structure we experience.
- Rests on an assumption: Our macroexperience has a rich structure, involving complex spatial structure, many modalities, and so on.
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“The combination problem can be broken down into at least three subproblems, reflecting three di erent aspects of phenomenal states: their subjective character (they are always had by a subject), their qualitative character (they involve distinctive qualities), and their structural character (they have a certain complex structure).”
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“It should be stressed that a satisfactory solution to the combination problem must address all of these problems.”
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“There is presumably only a limited palette of microqualities. Especially if Russellian panpsychism is true, we can expect only a handful of microqualities, corresponding to the handful of fundamental microphysical properties.”
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“Obvious worries for this view are that it seems to entail that there is only one conscious subject, and that each of us is identical to each other and has the same experiences.”
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“For a start, the quark is presumably microphysically like other quarks, so it will also be microphenomenally like those quarks, yielding a vast manifold of subjects of experience just like me throughout the brain and throughout the universe.”
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“These problems seem just as hard as the original combination problem.”
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“But this is at least an argument that panpsychists need to address.”
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“Nevertheless, panpsychism is subject to a major challenge: the combination problem.”
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“I think one can point to special features of the physical that explain the latter gap (the structural nature of physical truths, for example)”
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“I conclude that both panpsychism and panprotopsychism su er from serious combination problems.”
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“I think that these arguments are highly inconclusive, largely because we know so little about what microphenomenal or protophenomenal properties are like.”
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“There are obvious worries here about this quark's stability (what happens when it disappears?) and about its causal role (how could its properties play the rich causal role that macroexperiences seem to play?).”
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“More generally, given any group of subjects and any further subject, it seems possible in principle for the first group of subjects to exist without the further subject.”
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“Microexperiences presumably have structure closely corresponding to microphysical structure (this is especially clear on a Russellian view)”
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“In any case, it is clear that the structural mismatch argument is a significant challenge that all Russellian monists must answer.”
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“Furthermore, eliminativism does not really remove all aspects of the subject combination problem. Presumably even an eliminativist will still acknowledge that experiences come in bundles or streams of some sort, so that the experiences previously taken to be mine share a bundle or stream with experiences previously taken to be yours. But now the problem can be reconceived as the bundle combination”
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“This view has more attractions than the earlier views, but there are also worries.”
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“Still, given a Russellian view, it is not easy to see how these structures could be so di erent that they yield the vast di erences between macrophysical and macrophenomenal structure.”
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“If it is a synchronic relation, then presumably the low-level and high-level subjects exist at the same time, and we have lost the distinctive aspect of this view whereby the high-level subject supersedes the low-level subject.”
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“So a constitutive panpsychist or panprotopsychist may need to deny that it is a primitive relation, and explain how instances of it can be constituted.”
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“the fact that awareness requires subjects might simply suggest that the awareness combination problem is just as hard as the subject combination problem and is subject to the same sort of worries.”
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“it seems clear that the structure of the visual field corresponds to information structure in the brain and not to spatial or qualitative structure.”
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“The overall upshot is that combinatorial infusion is best understood as a version of identity panpsychism or emergent panpsychism (with the associated problems), and not as a version of combinatorial panpsychism.”
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“A related idea (along the lines of Gregg Rosenberg's 'carrier hypothesis' about causation in A Place for Consciousness ) is that causation (or perhaps nomic necessitation) is a fundamental relation that has a phenomenal relation as an underlying quiddity.”
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“if we can explain how microexperiences and microphysics constitute each instance of the awareness relation between subjects and qualities, we will have solved the combination problem.”
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“But it is not at all clear why or how phenomenal composition could work this way while still being a sort of constitutive composition.”
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“Then a panpsychist can say that premise (3) is true only of broadly macrophysical structure.”
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“If on the other hand the relation is not transitive and one has distinct subjects for di erent instances of the relation, then one will have far too many subjects and it is hard to see how we will get macrosubjects.”
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“Perhaps the most important version of identity panpsychism is quantum holism .”
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“So only a few microqualities can be causally e cacious, and the rest will be epiphenomenal.”
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“It is not obvious that this problem is much easier than the original problem.”
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“as the view stands, it seems to leave all three main strands of the combination problem open. It is unclear how microqualities can constitute a macrosubject, or how they can constitute macroqualities, or how they can constitute the structure of macroexperience.”
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“But in general separately instantiated qualities (the redness and whiteness of distinct objects) do not yield a combined quality, and nor do separately instantiated phenomenal qualities.”
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“Still, this sort of deflationism does not make the subject combination problem go away. We still need an account of how a derivative subject of experience can be constituted by microsubjects, or by microphenomenal / protophenomenal properties along with microphysics.”
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“Awareness involves phenomenology, and there are good reasons to think that no mere functional state can constitute phenomenology.”
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“Some related worries are theoretical: On some interpretations of quantum mechanics the locus of entanglement is the whole universe (leading us back to cosmopsychism), on others there is no entanglement at all, and on still others there are regular collapses that tend to destroy this sort of entanglement.”
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“It is not at all clear whether these ideas can work together in such a way that all of the combination problems are solved at once, however.”
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“It is not easy to see how this line can work for a constitutive Russellian panpsychist.”
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“The Russellian panpsychist could exploit this quantum-mechanical merging for their purposes, but the resulting position is a familiar one. It is a version of the quantum holism discussed under identity panpsychism in the previous section. It has the advantages and disadvantages discussed there (notably the worries about stability of entanglement and about structural mismatch), but it is not really”
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“There is also a structural mismatch worry: it is hard to see how the universe's experiences (especially given a Russellian views on which these correspond to the universe's physical properties) should have anything like the localized idiosyncratic structure of my experiences.”
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“On the other hand, premise (2) is true only of narrowly macrophysical structure: the structure of consciousness is not isomorphic to the spatiotemporal and other narrowly macrophysical structure of the brain, but it may well be isomorphic to other sorts of macrophysical structure there.”
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“The challenge for this view is making the case that physics really contains infusion laws that yield infusions of the requisite character and complexity.”
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“But perhaps the biggest worry is once again a structural mismatch worry. The structure of the quantum state of brain-level systems is quite di erent from the structure of our experience.”
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“A su ciently rich large-palette solution might eliminate the need for quality combination altogether, thereby removing the problem of how quality combination works, or at least reducing it to the issue of how macrosubjects can inherit (awareness of) qualities from microsubjects.”
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“Perhaps there are intermediate options, but it is not at all easy to see how phenomenal bonding will avoid the Scylla of a universal subject and the Charybdis of fragmentary subjects.”
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“if this approach can show how brains or organisms stand in the awareness relation to qualities, then it will show how brains or organisms can be subjects.”
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“It is then not out of the question that a certain phenomenal relation could serve as the quiddity underlying spatiotemporal relations.”
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“If the same object simultaneously instantiated a degree of redness and a degree of whiteness (at the same location), it will instantiate pinkness.”
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“(3) Microphysical structure constitutes only macrophysical structure.”
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“One might also worry about the quality combination problem. The co-consciousness relation does not seem to help much here: presumably the limited palate of microqualities experienced by microsubjects will also be experienced by macrosubjects, and it is not clear how a rich tapestry of macroqualities will emerge.”
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“In any case, if we are looking to either solve the combination problem or to prove it unsolvable, I think the structural mismatch problem is a promising place to focus.”
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“The suggestion requires that the apparent simplicity of physics (with a small number of fundamental properties and laws) is in fact concealing a much more complex underlying level with a vast multiplicity of fundamental properties and fundamental laws, all connected in such a way to yield the appearance of simplicity.”
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“(1) If Russellian panpsychism is true, microphenomenal structure is isomorphic to microphysical structure.”
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“The view does not say much about the quality combination problem: it presupposes qualities rather than explaining them.”
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“(4) If microphenomenal structure is isomorphic to microphysical structure, then any structure constituted by microphenomenal structure (and microphysical structure) is isomorphic to a structure constituted by microphysical structure.”
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“So wholesale eliminativism about subjects may seem to require eliminativism about phenomenal properties, or at least a reconception of them as properties of quite di erent entities.”
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“Some worries are empirical: it does not seem that there is the sort of stable brain-level entanglement that would be needed for this view to work.”
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“Premise (5) is also highly plausible: the macrophenomenal structure of my visual field is prima facie very di erent from the macrophysical structure of my brain, and it will often (for example in cases of illusion) be quite di erent from the macrophysical structure of other parts of the world.”
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“Still, it remains unclear just why phenomenal microquiddities should give rise to broad phenomenal macroquiddities, and how these broad phenomenal macroquiddities relate to narrow phenomenal macquiddities: in particular how can these macroquiddities stand in the constitutive relation that is plausibly required to avoid causal exclusion worries?”
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“On a Russellian view of physics, it is natural to hold that just as there are microquiddities associated with microphysical properties (such as mass), there are macroquiddities associated with narrowly macrophysical properties (such as macroscopic mass).”
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“We might expect that on a a constitutive Russellian view, macrophenomenal properties would have this more basic structure rather than the somewhat arbitrary informational structure.”
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“Anything that is aware of a quality is a subject”
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“one can conceive of any such functional state in the absence of phenomenology, and in particular in the absence of awareness.”
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“It is also far from clear how phenomenal bonding will help with the structure combination problem. Insofar as our underlying phenomenal relation is the categorical basis of spatiotemporal or causal relations, one would expect it to have the same structure as those relations, and one would expect the bonded systems to have structure isomorphic to the corresponding composite spatiotemporal or causal”
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“It is quite plausible that principles for combining perceived qualities will play a role in explaining principles for combining phenomenal qualities, but the matter remains open.”
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“If so, then given the ubiquity of spatiotemporal and causal relations, it looks as if the microphenomenal states throughout the universe may stand in this relation, yielding a single giant subject.”
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“(2) If constitutive panpsychism is true, microphenomenal (and microphysical) structure constitutes macrophenomenal structure.”
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“Most obviously, one can suggest macrophenomenal structure is isomorphic to certain information structure in the brain.”
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There is a vast array of macroqualities, including many different phenomenal colors, shapes, sounds, smells, and tastes.
“There is a vast array of macroqualities, including many di erent phenomenal colors, shapes, sounds, smells, and tastes.”
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Macrophysical structure is entirely different from the macrophenomenal structure we experience.
“Macrophysical structure (in the brain, say) seems entirely di erent from the macrophenomenal structure we experience.”
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Our macroexperience has a rich structure, involving complex spatial structure, many modalities, and so on.
“Our macroexperience has a rich structure, involving the complex spatial structure of visual and auditory fields, a division into many di erent modalities, and so on.”
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Microexperience involves microqualities, which might be primitive analogs of macroqualities.
“It is natural to suppose that microexperience involves microqualities, which might be primitive analogs of macroqualities.”
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Microexperiences have subjects.
“Although microexperiences presumably have subjects, protoexperiences need not.”
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Microphysics is causally closed.
“Given that microphysics is causally closed, it is hard to see how macroexperience can be have any causal e ects on it.”
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Substance dualism faces problems of mental causation.
“Like substance dualism, emergent panpsychism seems to face an unattractive choice between epiphenomenalism, interactionism, and underdetermination.”
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There is a contemporary worldview on which everything depends at least weakly on what is going on in physics.
“As a result, it is not easy to square the view with a contemporary worldview on which everything depends at least weakly on what is going on in physics, but the view is worthy of some attention.”
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Subjects that are metaphysically primitive entities cannot be constituted by more basic entities.
“If subjects were metaphysically primitive entities, they could not be constituted by more basic entities, and combinatorial views would be ruled out.”
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Phenomenal properties need bearers, which might be subjects.
“And however they are defined, as properties they presumably need bearers, which might then be taken to be subjects.”
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Microphysics postulates fundamental monadic properties such as mass and charge, and fundamental relations such as spatiotemporal relations.
“Microphysics postulates fundamental monadic properties such as mass and charge, but it also postulates fundamental relations such as spatiotemporal relations.”
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Physics characterizes the mathematical structure of fundamental relations but not their categorical nature.
“Just as with mass and charge, physics seems to characterize the mathematical structure of these relations but not their categorical nature.”
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Co-consciousness seems to be transitive.
“One question for this view and for other phenomenal bonding views is whether the bonding relation is transitive (as co-consciousness seems to be), so that when one microphenomenal state stands in this relation to two other phenomenal states of two other subjects, all three will be jointly experienced by a single subject.”
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The limited palate of microqualities experienced by microsubjects will also be experienced by macrosubjects.
“presumably the limited palate of microqualities experienced by microsubjects will also be experienced by macrosubjects, and it is not clear how a rich tapestry of macroqualities will emerge.”
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All conscious experience consists in a subject's awareness of qualities.
“it is arguable that all conscious experience consists in a subject's awareness of qualities.”
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There are only a few fundamental microphysical properties and one quiddity for each of these.
“Given that there are only a few fundamental microphysical properties and one quiddity for each of these”
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Physics appears simple, with a small number of fundamental properties and laws.
“the apparent simplicity of physics (with a small number of fundamental properties and laws)”
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§ 8 The structure combination problem
“On the other hand, premise (2) is true only of narrowly macrophysical structure: the structure of consciousness is not isomorphic to the spatiotemporal and other narrowly macrophysical structure of the brain, but it may well be isomorphic to other sorts of macrophysical structure there.”
§ 8 The structure combination problem
“(2) If constitutive panpsychism is true, microphenomenal (and microphysical) structure constitutes macrophenomenal structure.”
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§ 5 Noncombinatorial responses
“This taxonomy divides panpsychist responses to the combination problem into four classes: emergent panpsychism, autonomous panpsychism, identity panpsychism, and combinatorial panpsychism.”
§ 5 Noncombinatorial responses
“The first three are noncombinatorial responses, while the third is a combinatorial response.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Chalmers, D. J.
- Corresponding author
- Chalmers, David J.
- ORCID
- Chalmers, David J.
- Venue
- Panpsychism
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2016-12-29
- Pages
- 179-214
- OpenAlex
- W2535351563
- Cited by
- 231
- References
- 39
- Citations by year
- 2026: 14 · 2025: 20 · 2024: 15 · 2023: 37 · 2022: 34 · 2021: 33 · 2020: 15 · 2019: 25 · 2018: 18 · 2017: 8 · 2016: 5
- FWCI
- 88.17
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Oxford University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Philosophy and Theoretical Science
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Embodied and Extended Cognition
- Keywords
- panpsychism, combination problem, William James, Principles of Psychology, phenomenal states, phenomenal consciousness, qualia, David Chalmers
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