Galen Strawson Quotes on Mind

Galen Strawson's Mental Reality (1994), the long essay Realistic Monism (2006), and the more recent Things That Bother Me (2018) develop the most rigorous contemporary defense of panpsychism in the analytic tradition. The principal argument is that the apparent emergence of consciousness from non-conscious physical matter is, given the actual character of consciousness, philosophically unintelligible — and that the proper alternative to ontological dualism is therefore to attribute experiential properties to the physical at the most fundamental level, with the macroscopic consciousness of human and animal subjects representing a particular configuration of more elementary experiential constituents. The framework engages closely with the contemporary hard-problem debate organized around Chalmers, Nagel, and the broader phenomenal-realist position.