The reality of consciousness -- Part I. Against physicalism. What is physicalism? -- The knowledge argument -- The conceivability argument -- Revelation and the transparency argument -- Part II. Russellian monism : an alternative. The elegant solution -- Panpsychism versus panprotopsychism and the subject-summing problem -- Top-down combination problems -- A conscious universe -- Analytic phenomenology : a metaphysical manifesto.
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The first half of this book argues that physicalism cannot account for consciousness, and hence cannot be true. The second half explores and defends Russellian monism, a radical alternative to both physicalism and dualism. The view that emerges combines panpsychism with the view that the universe as a whole is fundamental.