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Metaphysical Aspects of Consciousness

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Dualism

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The belief that mind and body are fundamentally different kinds of things.

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Interactionism

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The theory that the mind and body interact causally with each other.

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Mysterianism

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The view that the hard problem of consciousness may never be solved by human minds.

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Neutral Monism

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The perspective that mind and body are two aspects of the same substance, which is itself neither mental nor physical.

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Pantheism

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The belief that divinity or consciousness is identical with or pervades everything.

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Multiple Realizability

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The idea that a single mental state could be instantiated by many different physical states.

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Panpsychism

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The view that consciousness is a fundamental and widespread property of the world.

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Non-Reductive Physicalism

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The position that while mental states are physical they cannot be reduced to physical properties.

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Token Identity Theory

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A claim that individual instances of mental states can be identified with individual physical states.

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Mental Causation

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The concept concerning the causal roles of mental states and consciousness in producing behavior and actions.

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Property Dualism

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The position that there are mental properties that are not reducible to physical properties.

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Substance Dualism

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The belief in the existence of two kinds of substance: mental and material.

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Quantum Consciousness

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The speculation that quantum mechanical phenomena, like entanglement and superposition, may play a part in cognitive processes.

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Intentionality

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The philosophical concept that consciousness is about or of something.

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Physicalism

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The theory that everything that exists is no more extensive than its physical properties.

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Epiphenomenalism

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The theory that mental phenomena are causal outcomes of physical processes but have no causal influence themselves.

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Idealism

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The metaphysical view that the mind or spirit constitutes the fundamental reality.

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Functionalism

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The view that mental states are constituted by their functional role in the computational or input-output profile of a system.

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Type Identity Theory

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The belief that mental states are directly identifiable with physical brain states.

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Emergentism

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The belief that consciousness arises from the right organization of physical processes, but isn't reducible to them.

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Supervenience

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The relationship between two sets of properties such that when one set of properties changes, there must be a corresponding change in the other set.

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Phenomenal Consciousness

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The aspect of consciousness dealing with the experiential or 'what it is like' component.

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Access Consciousness

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The aspect of consciousness that relates to the availability of information to various cognitive processes.

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Eliminative Materialism

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The notion that common-sense psychological concepts of belief and desire are false and should be replaced by a more robust neurological framework.

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Qualia

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Subjective experiences that cannot be directly measured or communicated.

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