ABSTRACT

This chapter takes the ideas from the earlier chapter and considers ways in which they could be expanded into current or novel debates and can ground challenging and fertile research projects. This theme is developed down two streams: one focusing on how to make sense of the psychophysically neutral domain and its splitting into aspects (including the emergence of space and time from the prespace of the neutral domain); the other on how to think about theoretical and empirical research in which meaning and its deep structure figure in prominent roles. Although meaning is traditionally often associated with the mental alone, the studied versions of dual-aspect monism see it is a deeply relational concept connecting the physical, the mental, and their underlying psychophysically neutral realm.