panpsychism
[pan-sahy-kiz-uh m]
- a theory that all matter has some form of consciousness.
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This opens the chapter of the relations of radical empiricism to panpsychism, into which I can not enter now.
Essays in Radical EmpiricismWilliam James
Whatever be the value of this dualism, it will have to be discussed even in the hypothesis of panpsychism.
The Mind and the BrainAlfred Binet
This form of panpsychism finds its simplest expression in the "trinity of substance."
Evolution in Modern ThoughtErnst Haeckel