Definition of panpsychism in English:
panpsychism
noun panˈsʌɪkɪz(ə)mpanˈsīˌkizəm
mass nounThe doctrine or belief that everything material, however small, has an element of individual consciousness.
Example sentencesExamples
- One can, perhaps, describe the new mysterians, in a very liberal mood, as very cautious materialists (so cautious as to support dualism or panpsychism).
- A related more scientific-sounding version of animism is panpsychism.
- Panpsychism is the view that all things have a mind or a mind-like quality.
- It was noted some time ago, by Thomas Nagel (1979), that the denial of radical emergentism coupled with nonreductionism seems to entail panpsychism.
Derivatives
adjective & noun
The panpsychist conception of mind must be sufficiently broad to plausibly encompass humans and non-human objects as well.
Example sentencesExamples
- He offers a defense of panpsychist idealism, differing from other panpsychists in his notions of the Absolute, time, and the nature of the Unconscious.
- One very real problem for consciousness from the panpsychist perspective is the scientific argument that energy and consciousness are not the same thing.