new mysterianism

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

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.

Noun[edit]

new mysterianism (uncountable)

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