An Ontological Solution to the Mind-Body Problem

Philosophies

Kastrup, Bernardo¹ 

关键词: idealism;    panpsychism;    physicalism;    mind-body problem;    hard problem of consciousness;    subject combination problem;    artificial consciousness;   

DOI  :  10.3390/philosophies2020010

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

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 problem’, respectively. It can be summarized as follows: spatially unbound consciousness is posited to be nature’s sole ontological primitive. We, as well as all other living organisms, are dissociated alters of this unbound consciousness. The universe we see around us is the extrinsic appearance of phenomenality surrounding—but dissociated from—our alter. The living organisms we share the world with are the extrinsic appearances of other dissociated alters. As such, the challenge to artificially create individualized consciousness becomes synonymous with the challenge to artificially induce abiogenesis.

【 授权许可】

CC BY