new mysterianism
English
editEtymology
editOwen 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
editnew mysterianism (uncountable)
- A philosophical position proposing that the hard problem of consciousness cannot be resolved by humans.