An Ontological Solution to the Mind-Body Problem
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An Ontological Solution to the Mind-Body Problem
I argue for an idealist ontology consistent with empirical observations, which seeks to explain the facts of nature more parsimoniously than physicalism and bottom-up panpsychism. This ontology also attempts to offer more explanatory power than both physicalism and bottom-up panpsychism, in that it does not fall prey to either the ‘hard problem of consciousness’ or the ‘subject combination prob...
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عنوان ژورنال: Philosophies
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2409-9287
DOI: 10.3390/philosophies2020010