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Panpsychism

2018
Panpsychism is the thesis that physical nature is composed of individuals each of which is to some degree sentient. 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.
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Panpsychism

2019
Panpsychism is the view that consciousness is a fundamental and ubiquitous feature of the natural world. In a standard form of the view, the fundamental constituents of the physical world – perhaps electrons and quarks – have incredibly basic forms of conscious experience, and the consciousness of a human or animal brain is derived from the ...
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The Reasonability of Panpsychism

Binghamton Journal of Philosophy, 2012
Panpsychism is the theory that each thing in the universe is conscious. In other words, panpsychism says that it is like something to be anything, from humans down to electrons. At face value, panpsychism can seem strange, weird, and even farfetched.
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Panpsychism

2009
Abstract Panpsychism endorses the co-fundamental status of matter and mind in so far as it allows there are features of the world which are non-mental. Panpsychism is also not generally a view in which mentality is taken as ‘substantial’.
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Bergson’s panpsychism

Continental Philosophy Review, 2018
Physical processes manifest an objective order that science manages to discover. Commonly, it is considered that these processes obey the “laws of nature.” Bergson disputes this idea which ultimately constitutes a kind of Platonism. In contrast, he develops the idea that physical processes are a particular case of automatic behaviors.
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Representationalism and Panpsychism

2021
Abstract A solution is offered to the paradox presented in Chapter 1. This solution requires us to embrace a qualified form of panpsychism for consciousness, or rather for a key element of consciousness I call “consciousness*”. Consciousness, I claim, is inherently representational and did indeed evolve.
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Panentheism, Panpsychism, Theism

2023
Abstract This chapter addresses a key element of Abhinavagupta’s panentheism: the question of how we get sentience, through looking at the possibilities for computer sentience, machine AI, and specifically Nick Bostrom’s discussion of a paperclip apocalypse. Abhinavagupta locates the essence of sentience in the term vimarśa.
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Panpsychism, The Combination Problem, and Plural Collective Properties

Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2019
Einar Duenger Bohn
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