The Pauli–Jung Conjecture and Its Relatives: A Formally Augmented Outline

Abstract

The dual-aspect monist conjecture launched by Pauli and Jung in the mid-20th century will be couched in somewhat formal terms to characterize it more concisely than by verbal description alone. After some background material situating the Pauli–Jung conjecture among other conceptual approaches to the mind–matter problem, the main body of this paper outlines its general framework of a basic psychophysically neutral reality with its derivative mental and physical aspects and the nature of the correlations that connect these aspects. Some related approaches are discussed to identify key similarities to and deviations from the Pauli–Jung framework that may be useful for cross-fertilization.

Keywords

• dual-aspect monism
• exceptional experience
• implicate order
• meaning
• mind
• matter correlations
• neutral monism
• nonlocality
• objective idealism
• panentheism
• panpsychism
• product state
• reproducibility