Dissolving the Combination Problem: Second-Order Distinction and the Genesis of New Subjects
Open MIND July 16, 2026 Sepehr Shokouhi
Panpsychism promises to escape the puzzle of consciousness emerging from wholly experience-less matter by admitting experience at reality's most fundamental layer, but it inherits an unfinished difficulty of its own: the combination problem, how the aggregation of micro-experiences yields a single, unified macro-experience. Building on an ontological framework formulated elsewhere, this paper...