The Combination Problem

Do you see it as troubling to the position of panpsychism that you have to explain this extraordinary phenomenon? I think it's a really good way of putting it, and in fact, it's reminiscent of the way William James put it. A lot of the inspiration for the combination problem is traced back to the great 19th century philosopher and psychologist William James. If we eventually managed to make a system of the unity of our two brains that had more integrated information in the whole than the parts, well, there would then cease to be Phillips mind and Alex's mind," he says.