English Explanatory Dictionary

new mysterianism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A philosophical position proposing that the hard problem of consciousness cannot be resolved by humans.

Word forms

new mysterianism

Etymology

Owen Flanagan noted in his 1991 book Science of the Mind that some modern thinkers had suggested that consciousness might never be completely explained; he called these thinkers "the new mysterians" after the rock group Question Mark and the Mysterians.

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