panpsychism (usually uncountable, plural panpsychisms)
(philosophy, uncountable) The doctrine that all matter has a mental aspect. (Many panpsychists employ the qualification that only “true individuals” are animated; that is, that things like atoms, molecules, and organisms are animated as atoms, molecules, and organisms, whereas things like rocks, tables, and boots are not animated as themselves, although they do comprise animate elements.)
(philosophy, countable) A specific panpsychist doctrine or system.
Strictly speaking, panpsychism is a very general term. Any ontology that takes mind or some quality of the mind as ubiquitous can be take as panpsychist. In contemporary usage, panpsychism is used synonymous with panexperientialism rather than pancognitivism. Panexperientialists take experience of some form as ubiquitous, while pancognitivists take cognition in some as ubiquitous. The following terms may fall under be or overlap with the concept of panpsychism, but are are distinct from the concept in everyday usage
• animism (the supernaturalistic belief in a multitude of — more or less anthropomorphic — spirits animating the features of the world, characteristic of many traditional tribal religions
• pansensism and hylopathism doctrines that everything senses — very closely related to panpsychism
• hylozoism, panbiotism, and panzoism doctrines that all matter is intrinsically alive; their similarities with and distinctiveness from panpsychism chiefly centres on how the underlying concepts of “life” and “mentality” are defined
• panexperientialism the doctrine that everything experiences — “at present the most fully articulated form of panpsychism”); pantheism and
• panentheism doctrines that God or the Divine Principle “saturate” the Cosmos — in the former God is identical with the universe and every material thing is a part of God; in the latter God transcends the universe
• The doctrine of the world soul which states that the universe in its totality has a single unifying spirit — such a doctrine is usually panentheistic.
Source: Wiktionary
Pan*psy"chism, n. [See Pan-; Psychic.]
Definition: The theory that all nature is psychical or has a psychical aspect; the theory that every particle of matter has a psychical character or aspect. -- Pan*psy"chic (#), a. -- Pan*psy"chist (#), n.
– Pan`psy*chis"tic (#), a.
Fechner affords a conspicuous instance of the idealistic tendency to mysterize nature in his panpsychicism, or that form of noumenal idealism which holds that the universe is a vast communion of spirits, souls of men, of animals, of plants, of earth and other planets, of the sun, all embraced as different members in the soul of the world. Encyc. Brit.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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