The Pauli–Jung Conjecture and Its Relatives: A Formally Augmented Outline
Open Philosophy October 9, 2020 DOI: 10.1515/opphil-2020-0138 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Keywords | Dual-aspect monism Exceptional experience Implicate order Meaning Mind Matter correlations Neutral monism Nonlocality Objective idealism Panentheism Panpsychism Product state Reproducibility |
| Key points | Proposes that a formal characterization of the Pauli-Jung dual-aspect monist conjecture can clarify its framework of a psychophysically neutral reality with derivative mental and physical aspects. |
Abstract
The dual-aspect monist conjecture launched by Pauli and Jung in the mid-20th century will be couched in somewhat formal terms to characterize it more concisely than by verbal description alone. After some background material situating the Pauli–Jung conjecture among other conceptual approaches to the mind–matter problem, the main body of this paper outlines its general framework of a basic psychophysically neutral reality with its derivative mental and physical aspects and the nature of the correlations that connect these aspects. Some related approaches are discussed to identify key similarities to and deviations from the Pauli–Jung framework that may be useful for cross-fertilization.