Abstract
- Recently, many philosophers have become interested in whether idealism can help solve the mind-body problem. The two strategies that have received most attention are panpsychism and cosmopsychism. According to panpsychism, there are fundamental phenomenal states corresponding to at least some microphysical entities. According to cosmopsychism, there is a fundamental phenomenal state corresponding to the physical state of the universe as a whole. Despite their attractions, both of these views have difficulties accounting for the macroscopic experiences that we are familiar with from our conscious life. So in this paper, I assess the prospects of macroidealism as a solution to the mind-body problem. According to macroidealism, the fundamental phenomenal states are those belonging to macrosubject subjects like ourselves