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panpsychism

panpsychism

1 9.9
The idea that all things have some form of mind or feeling
  • noun
  • /ˌpænˈsaɪkɪzəm/
  • Specialized
translation icon : panpsiquismo
  • Consider that panpsychism—of the sort that Galen Strawson advocates—can also explain the contingency of creature consciousness on the brain, as can neutral monism.

We'll see a panpsychism that's not tied to space-time.

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Examples

  • So if so, we've been talking about panpsychism as the little particles being conscious.

  • Many philosophers debate whether panpsychism accurately describes the nature of reality, claiming that everything may have a mental quality.

  • And maybe panpsychism can help us a little bit with that.

  • I am hoping that you see the panpsychism approach is actually the simplest theory of experience, that everything has experience.

    Blog text (11)
  • Things are very different for the believer in panpsychism.

    Academic text (1990)
  • In the book, Nagel takes panpsychism seriously as a possible alternative to emergentism, but he doesn't endorse it.

    Blog text (3)
  • According to panpsychism, it may be claimed to be false, since it would constrain minds to funky physics (and contradict the main hypothesis).

    Blog text (11)
  • Whitehead affirmed another kind of monism, namely, a pluralistic "panexperientialism" (sometimes called "panpsychism," although neither term was used by Whitehead), according to which all fully actual things experience.

    Academic text (1991)
  • The theory of panpsychism proposes that all matter, from stones to stars, possesses some form of consciousness.

  • The concept of panpsychism suggests that even the simplest forms of matter could have their own awareness or experience.

Antonyms

materialism
  • Specialized
5 7.4

The belief that only physical things are real and minds come from them

Surface Forms

panpsychism singular
panpsychisms plural

Morphology

panpsychism = psychism (transparent) = pan + psych + ism

Formed by the productive prefix pan- ('all') added to psychism (psych + -ism); the meaning 'the view that mind is universal' follows directly from the parts.

Etymology

The word panpsychism comes from the Greek parts pan meaning 'all' and psyche meaning 'mind' or 'soul', the same root in psychology. So, panpsychism is the idea that 'all' things have some kind of 'mind' or simple 'awareness'.