panpsychism

[ pan-sahy-kiz-uhm ]

/ pænˈsaɪ kɪz əm /

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noun

a theory that all matter has some form of consciousness.

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OTHER WORDS FROM panpsychism

pan·psy·chist, adjective

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How to use panpsychism in a sentence

He is the author of Eco, Ego, Eros, which explores panpsychism across various fields, and blogs at Medium.
The Hard Problem of Consciousness Has an Easy Part We Can Solve - Facts So Romantic|Tam Hunt|September 8, 2021|Nautilus
Whitehead’s variety of panpsychism, still the most worked-out version of panpsychism today, re-envisions the nature of matter in a fundamental way.
Electrons May Very Well Be Conscious - Issue 94: Evolving|Tam Hunt|December 30, 2020|Nautilus
You might see the rise of panpsychism as part of a Copernican trend—the idea that we’re not special.
Electrons May Very Well Be Conscious - Issue 94: Evolving|Tam Hunt|December 30, 2020|Nautilus
Such experiments move debates about panpsychism out of the realm of philosophy and more firmly into the realm of science.
Electrons May Very Well Be Conscious - Issue 94: Evolving|Tam Hunt|December 30, 2020|Nautilus

This form of panpsychism finds its simplest expression in the "trinity of substance."
Evolution in Modern Thought|Ernst Haeckel
Whatever be the value of this dualism, it will have to be discussed even in the hypothesis of panpsychism.
The Mind and the Brain|Alfred Binet
This opens the chapter of the relations of radical empiricism to panpsychism, into which I can not enter now.
Essays in Radical Empiricism|William James