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The Combination Problem for Panpsychism

Philosophical constraint: a proposal assigning experience to constituents still needs an account of how subjects or experiences combine. A conceptual objection, not an experimental refutation.

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David J. Chalmers (2016). The Combination Problem for Panpsychism. In Panpsychism: Contemporary Perspectives, chapter 7, 179–214; online 20 October 2016, print edition 2017.

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199359943.003.0008

Philosophical constraint: a proposal assigning experience to constituents still needs an account of how subjects or experiences combine. A conceptual objection, not an experimental refutation.

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