panpsychist
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- noun
- /ˌpænˈsaɪkɪst/
- Specialized
- A panpsychist believes that even rocks and trees have some form of consciousness.
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Watch on YouTubeIn the last decade or so it's been rediscovered, which has led to this new wave of Russell inspired panpsychists that that I've kind of become a part of.
- In the last decade or so it's been rediscovered, which has led to this new wave of Russell inspired panpsychists that that I've kind of become a part of.
- It's like panpsychists believe that consciousness, I guess, comes before life and before intelligence.
- Do you think as a panpsychist there is a great continuity between humans and the rest of the universe?
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Do you think as a panpsychist there is a great continuity between humans and the rest of the universe?
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It's like panpsychists believe that consciousness, I guess, comes before life and before intelligence.
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I'm not a panpsychist myself, so I'm not sure how it all works; your questions are the same ones I would have.
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In the last decade or so it's been rediscovered, which has led to this new wave of Russell inspired panpsychists that that I've kind of become a part of.
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If, for instance, quantum coherence is indeed prevalent in the brain and provides much of the "virtual reality" of the brain, then the panpsychist could argue that quantum coherence is everywhere around us.
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It is through (1) and (2) that I reach the panpsychist view that physical reality either consists in, or is the appearance of, a system of innumerable mutually influencing streams of experience that constitute the biographies of sentient individuals of various degrees of mental clarity.
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Many philosophical discussions involve the views of a panpsychist who argues that everything in the universe is alive mentally.
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As a panpsychist, she contends that consciousness is not limited to living beings but is a property of all matter.
Synonyms
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A person who believes that trees, rivers, and animals have spirits
Antonyms
- Specialized
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A person who believes only physical things exist and mind comes from the brain
Surface Forms
Morphology
panpsychist = psych (transparent) = pan + psych + ist
Built from 'pan-' + 'psych' with '-ist' as an agentive suffix, so the noun 'a panpsychist' is directly derived from those elements.
Etymology
Panpsychist comes from the Greek parts pan- meaning 'all' and psyche meaning 'mind' or 'soul', which you also meet in psychology. A panpsychist is a person who believes that even rocks or tiny particles have some form of awareness, which is why the word names someone with that belief.