Panpsychism

Quick meaning: Panpsychism is a noun meaning (uncountable) The belief that all matter is conscious in some form.

Meaning

(uncountable) The belief that all matter is conscious in some form.

More Meanings

1. (uncountable) Synonym of panexperientialism, the particular form of panpsychism that holds experience but not cognition as universal.
2. (countable) A particular form of panpsychism.

Example Sentences

Whitehead devised such a conception, which to my mind definitely supersedes the panpsychisms of the history of metaphysics.

The genius of modern panpsychisms has proved to be their capacity to incorporate rather than reject the mechanistic point of view.

This seems to be due to one factor that they all—the various idealisms, phenomenalisms, positivisms, and panpsychisms—have in common: They reject, or at least fail to endorse, the idea of “matter.”

[Anne Conway's posthumous 1690] treatise [Principia Philosophiae Antiquissimae ac Recentissimae], the first philosophical paper published by a woman, was one of the first modern articulations of panpsychism, the idea that consciousness is fundamental to the natural world.

Word Forms

• panpsychisms

Synonyms for panpsychism

Depending on context, synonyms include panexperientialism.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include panpsychicism, pampsychism, psychism, panexperientialism, micropsychism, panaesthetism.

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