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n. A hypothetical particle of consciousness.
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Psychon could refer to:
- Psychon (Space 1999), a species from the television series Space: 1999
- Psychon (video game), a homebrew video game for the Sony Playstation developed with the Net Yaroze.
- Psychon (mental unit), a unit of mental activity proposed in How the Self Controls Its Brain
- Lords of the Psychon, 1963 novel by Daniel F. Galouye
Usage examples of "psychon".
The psychon, the unit of thought, is one electron plus one proton, which are bound so as to form one neutron, embedded in one cosmon, occupying a volume of one spation, driven by one quantum for a period of one chronon.
My idealizator is the means of transforming psychons to quanta, just as, for instance, a Crookes tube or X-ray tube transforms matter to electrons.
The psychons of your mind are the same as those from any other mind, just as all electrons are identical, whether from gold or iron.
In fact, I doubt whether the device will be able to extract any psychons from your mind.
Of course Isaak can return only what psychons he receives from the brain of the operator, but just as the image in the mirror, the thoughts will have lost their human impress, and the words will be those of an ideal.
I say a dozen times that the psychons are transmuted to perfectly ordinary quanta of visible light?
Must I explain again how the cosmons, chronons, spations, psychons, and all other particles are interchangeable?
I saw nothing other than I had been seeing right along from my own personal point of view, because, as van Manderpootz explained later, the psychons from the miserable brain of a fly are too few to produce any but the vaguest of impressions.
In that case the psychons given off by your mind were converted into quanta of visible light, which could be seen.