micropsychism

English

Etymology

micro- +‎ psychism

Noun

micropsychism (uncountable)

1. (philosophy) The belief that the physical world is independent of the mind, and that some ultimates have experiential properties that are fundamentally necessary in the explanation of consciousness.
   • 2013, Uriah Kriegel, Current Controversies in Philosophy of Mind, →ISBN:

     The resulting all-inclusive potential explanatory advantage of protophenomenalism over phenomenal micropsychism is offset by the liability that it proposes properties of which we currently have at best only a minimal conception.

   • 2013, Michael Blamauer, The Mental as Fundamental: New Perspectives on Panpsychism, →ISBN:

     According to Strawson, micropsychism is a position similar to property dualism insofar as it takes mentality to be a fundamental property of physical systems.

   • 2015, Edwin C. May, Sonali Bhatt Marwaha, Extrasensory Perception: Support, Skepticism, and Science, →ISBN:

     Either materialism, dualism, neutral monism, or micropsychism provides the best explanation of consciousness.