psychon
psychon noun: a hypothetical unit of consciousness.
Noun
psychon (plural psychons)
- A hypothetical unit of consciousness.
- Thirty years later, in his book How the Self Controls Its Brain (Springer Verlag, 1994), [John] Eccles posited that the “mind” produces “psychons” (i.e., fundamental units of consciousness, a term previously mostly used in cheesy science fiction) […]2023, Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will, New York: Penguin, →ISBN
Forms of psychon
| plural | psychons |
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Origin of psychon
From psycho- + -on.
Words formed from psychon
Questions about psychon
- What does psychon mean?
- Psychon means a hypothetical unit of consciousness.
- What part of speech is psychon?
- Psychon is a noun.
- What is the plural of psychon?
- The plural of psychon is psychons.
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