Contextual Semantics: Truth as Indirect Correspondence

An Ontological Solution to the Mind-Body Problem

“…Moreover, as argued by Schaffer, "there is good evidence that the cosmos forms an entangled system, and good reason to treat entangled systems as irreducible wholes" [16] (p. 32). Horgan and Potrč had already arrived at similar conclusions earlier [17]. So if the cosmos is an irreducible whole, then TWE-which is associated with the entire cosmos, as per Inference 3-must be unitary.…”

“…[17][18][189][190]). However, it is a well-established fact that physical interference with the brain-through psychoactive drugs, trauma to the head, exposure to electromagnetic fields, etc.-affects inner experience.…”

“…2-30; [3], pp. [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30]. This is a well-known problem in neuroscience and philosophy of mind, often referred to as the 'hard problem of consciousness'.…”

“…Contrary to physicalism, thus, it is the inner experiences of an organism-including non-self-reflective and internally dissociated types unreachable through introspection, which I shall elaborate upon in Section 6-that cause its body (see also [10] (pp. [17][18][189][190]), insofar as the body is no more than a set of perceptions. (Notice that A1 and A2 can also be the same alter, since an organism can perceive its own body.)…”

“…[24][25][26][27][28][29] and panpsychism [4] (pp. [15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22] are analogous-and, in fact, may be identical-to microexperientialism and panexperientialism, respectively, except perhaps in that some formulations of the former admit cognition-a more complex form of experience-already at the level of primitives, as an irreducible aspect of these primitives. For ease of reference, I shall henceforth group microexperientialism, panexperientialism, micropsychism and panpsychism, as defined above, under the label 'bottom-up panpsychism'.…”