Philosophical position — holding that consciousness, experience, or proto-consciousness is a fundamental feature of all reality, not something that emerges solely in biological organisms — currently experiencing a major revival in analytic philosophy of mind as an alternative to physicalism and dualism.
Creates the most coherent non-reductive solution to the hard problem of consciousness — Panpsychism (consciousness is fundamental, not emergent) avoids both the epiphenomenalism problem of physicalism and the interaction problem of dualism; Galen Strawson's realistic monism, Philip Goff's cosmopsychism, and David Chalmers's property dualism all converge toward panpsychic positions, making it the most discussed philosophy-of-mind position in recent decades.
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