panpsychism

“If a cryopreserved brain is revived, and put back into more or less the exact same physical state as before preservation, it seems natural given panpsychism that the consciousness of its particles or other constituents would ‘recombine’ such that more or less the exact same kind of complex consciousness would return.”

To Skrbina, the solution to these intractable problems defining consciousness is through a philosophical concept known as panpsychism.

For similar reasons, Zeleznikow-Johnston rejects panpsychism.

“I'm not the most sympathetic to panpsychism in its broadest sense of even electrons having some simple level of consciousness because of the combination problem, which is how electrons, molecules, atoms and small things — with their little proto-consciousness or small elements — come together to produce a unified consciousness in a larger entity,” Zeleznikow-Johnston said.

Yes, that's also why, as I describe in the book, now things like panpsychism or even good old idealism are coming to the forefront … These faint voices that used to be completely excluded from polite discussion in the 20th Century.