Concept Panpsychism holds that mind, or a mind-like aspect, is a fundamental and ubiquitous feature of reality. [1] It is sometimes defined as a theory in which "the mind is a fundamental …

Panpsychism, (from Greek pan, “all”; psychē, “soul”), a philosophical theory asserting that a plurality of separate and distinct psychic beings or minds constitute reality.

Panpsychism is the view that all things have a mind or a mind-like quality. The word itself was coined by the Italian philosopher Francesco Patrizi in the sixteenth century, and derives from …

Panpsychism is the view that all of the fundamental entities in the universe possess some degree of mentality or consciousness, where this mentality or consciousness is not exhaustively …

Panpsychism is the philosophical view that mind, consciousness, or some rudimentary form of mentality is a fundamental and ubiquitous feature of reality.

Dec 10, 2025 · Panpsychism flourished in 19th-century philosophy and science and was the default philosophy of mind in Western thought. Arthur Schopenhauer argued reality was two …

Disenchanted with philosophy, he went on to teach English in Poland. Later, when he came across Thomas Nagel 's article "Panpsychism", Goff discovered a neglected third way of …

It is somewhat akin to hylozoism, but in place of the thesis of the pervasiveness of life in nature substitutes the pervasiveness of sentience, experience or, in a broad sense, consciousness. …

Dec 14, 2025 · In contemporary usage, panpsychism is synonymous with panexperientialism rather than pancognitivism. Panexperientialists take experience of some form as ubiquitous, …

In philosophy of mind, panpsychism is the view that the mind or consciousness is a fundamental and ubiquitous feature of reality. It is also described as a th...