Uploaded April 2022 | Updated September 2026, 59 minutes ago

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I’m joined by Luke Roelofs to discuss the combination problem for panpsychism, split brains, vagueness, illusionism, mental privacy, the general and special composition question, mereological nihilism and universalism, and many other topics related to consciousness and composite subjectivity.

Luke’s website lukeroelofs.com

Amodal Mind Perception: Combining Inferentialism and Perceptualism youtube.com/watch?v=G64uwjQaYQI

Combining Minds: How to Think About Composite Subjectivity (Oxford University Press) global.oup.com/academic/product/combining-minds-9780190859053?cc=us&lang=en&

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/ Timestamps /

00:00 Introduction

03:04 Empathy, Other Minds, Privacy

12:02 Vagueness

16:21 Mereological Nihilism, Restricted Composition, Universalism

59:47 Split Brains

1:20:33 Phenomenal Unity, Experience Inheritance, and the Micro-Unity Hypothesis

1:50:30 Practical implications of panpsychism?