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psychons

psychons is the plural of psychon.

Meaning of psychon

Noun

psychon (plural psychons)

  1. 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

Questions about psychons

What is psychons the plural of?
Psychons is the plural of psychon.

Words near psychons in the dictionary

  1. psychonic
  2. psychonomic
  3. psychonomics
  4. psychonomy
  5. psychonosology
  6. psychons
  7. psychooncological
  8. psychooncology
  9. psychoonomastics
  10. psychopaedic
  11. psychopannychism

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