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The emergent or epiphenomenal mind is a monist compromise that avoids eliminating the elements of consciousness entirely, or identifying them solely with brain function.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Pockett (2004).

  2. 2.

    Brabant (2016).

  3. 3.

    Blum (2013).

  4. 4.

    Titchener (1899, p. 122).

  5. 5.

    Titchener (1899, p. 123).

  6. 6.

    Kokoszka (19992000).

  7. 7.

    Brabant (2016).

  8. 8.

    Hennig-Fast et al. (2008).

  9. 9.

    Preller and Vollenweider (2018, p. 229).

  10. 10.

    Kramer (2002, p. 658).

  11. 11.

    Mussacchio (2005, p. 404).

  12. 12.

    Tschigguel and Hunter (2008).

  13. 13.

    Kramer (2002).

  14. 14.

    Meijer and Korf (2013).

  15. 15.

    Yoshimi (2012).

  16. 16.

    Libet (2006, p. 324)

  17. 17.

    Solomonova and Wei (2016).

  18. 18.

    Ibid.

  19. 19.

    Hut and Shepard (1996).

  20. 20.

    Dacher (2014).

  21. 21.

    Ibid., p. 149.

  22. 22.

    Austad (2018, p. 265).

  23. 23.

    Ibid.

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**ks, T. (2019). The Emergent Mind. In: Psychological Perspectives on Reality, Consciousness and Paranormal Experience. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28902-7_13

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