panpsychism.

The philosophical view that some form of mentality is a fundamental, pervasive feature of the natural world.

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Words that belong together

• a form of panpsychism
• defend panpsychism
• panpsychism and consciousness

On the page

Her version of panpsychism grants basic experience to matter without giving stones human thoughts.

The story builds its living cosmos around panpsychism rather than a single controlling deity.

Usage notes

Primary category: sci-fi literary / speculative. Lexical Type: Word. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Commonness: uncommon (editorial estimate; not a corpus frequency statistic). Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1; numbered fields keep each relevant meaning separate. Research distinction: Dictionary positive excerpt: theory that all nature is psychic. SEP directly read defines mentality as fundamental and ubiquitous, with basic mentality not necessarily human-like thought. Individual usefulness checked for a distinct speculative-writing function. Original definitions and examples; hypothetical theories and fictional applications are not presented as established findings. No inherent mood or intensity is assigned. Writing functions: mind-pervading cosmologies, minimal mentality without human thought.