Against Phenomenal Bonding
European Journal of Analytic Philosophy April 15, 2024 S Siddharth 3 citations
Panpsychism claims that all fundamental physical entities have phenomenal consciousness, but it faces the combination problem: how micro-experiences combine into the unified experiences of larger beings like humans. A key part of this problem is the subject-summing argument, which holds that combining distinct subjects of experience is impossible. Goff (2016) and Miller (2017) proposed a 'phenomenal bonding relation' to explain how subjects could compose. This paper examines that solution and argues it does not adequately address the subject-summing argument, leaving the combination problem unresolved.