panpsychism
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pan·psy·chism [pan-sahy-kiz-uh
m] Pronunciation Key
m] Pronunciation Key –noun
| a theory that all matter has some form of consciousness. |
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pan·psy·chist, adjective
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pan·psy·chism
 (pān-sī'kĭz'əm) Pronunciation Key
n. The view that all matter has consciousness. |
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Panpsychism
Pan*psy"chism\, n. [See Pan-; Psychic.] 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.
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