Panpsychism / neutral monism

The view that mind and matter are two aspects or appearances of one deeper kind of reality, neither more fundamental than the other — an attempt to avoid both the hard problem of consciousness and the interaction problem with a single underlying substrate.

Sources

  • Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, "Panpsychism"
  • Galen Strawson, "Realistic Monism: Why Physicalism Entails Panpsychism", Journal of Consciousness Studies 13 (2006)

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