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Your option (c) is idealistic monism specifically, since physical monism corresponds to materialism. And then there's: d) matter, energy, and consciousness al
by antonvs 3y ago
Your option (c) is idealistic monism specifically, since physical monism corresponds to materialism.
And then there's:
d) matter, energy, and consciousness all arise from or are different aspects of some single "substance" (neutral monism)
e) consciousness and matter are "radically different kinds of things" (dualism)
f) the question is unanswerable and/or incomprehensible to us (mysterianism)
- jadbox 3y agoThank you for that catch, yes, idealistic monism. Oh, I should have added E for as I already mentioned monism. D & F are also interesting positions. Neutral-monism sounds like an hegelian dialectic [the gap]: Many neutral monists hold that the terms “physical” and “mental” apply only to groups of neutral entities, not individual ones, "The stuff of which the world of our experience is composed is, in my belief, neither mind nor matter, but something more primitive than either. Both mind and matter seem to be composite, and the stuff of which they are compounded lies in a sense between the two, in a sense above them both, like a common ancestor". (Russell 1921: 10–11)