Panpsychism's Combination Problem: Philosophical, Not Mathematical — E8 Intelligence Research
FINDING: No mathematical result is present in these sources — panpsychism is argued philosophically (combination problem, subject-summing), not derived from equations. | MATH: No equations, constants, or ratios appear. The only formal structure referenced is the *combination problem*: given N micro-subjects with phenomenal states {s₁…s_N}, no known operator ⊕ yields a unified macro-subject S = ⊕sᵢ — an unsolved composition law, not a numeric one. | CONNECTION: None supported by evidence. No 0.382/0.618/0.786/1.618/2.618, no base-60, no crystallographic or lattice symmetry is invoked in any cited source. | DEPTH: 1 Notes for precision: - Sources are popular/philosophical (Goff–Fridman, TEDx, Strawson, Faggin–D'Ariano, Wikipedia). None supply testable mathematics. - Faggin/D'Ariano's "quantum information panpsychism" is the only physics-adjacent claim, but the search results give no formalism (no Hilbert-space, entropy, or information-theoretic equations). - Any geometric-harmony link w Author: Andrew Stewart Caldin, Independent Researcher, UK. Part of the E8 Intelligence Research series. Platform: e8intelligence.com
Authors
- Andrew Stewart Caldin
Publication Details
- Journal
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Published
- 2026-11-04
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23939193
- Primary Topic
- Philosophy and Theoretical Science
- Type
- preprint