panpsychism
nounEtymology
From pan- + psychism, a calque of German Panpsychismus (1874), from New Latin pampsychia coined by Francisco Patrizi in his 1591 Nova de Universis Philosophia, from Ancient Greek πᾰν- (păn-, “all”) + ψυχή (psukhḗ, “mind, life force, soul”) + -ία (-ía, “-ia: forming abstract nouns”). Cognate with Ancient Greek πάμψυχος (pámpsukhos, “in full life”) and Modern Greek παμψυχισμός (pampsychismós, “panpsychism”).
- derived from πᾰν-
- derived from pampsychia
- calqued from Panpsychismus
Definitions
The belief that all matter is conscious in some form.
Synonym of panexperientialism, the particular form of panpsychism that holds experience…
Synonym of panexperientialism, the particular form of panpsychism that holds experience but not cognition as universal.
A particular form of panpsychism.
- 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.”
The neighborhood
- neighborpanpsychic
- neighborpanpsychicism
- neighborpanpsychist
- neighborpanpsychistic
- neighborpanexperientialism
- neighborpancognitivism
- neighborhylopathism
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for panpsychism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA