Panpsychism

Panpsychism, in philosophy, is either the view that all parts of matter involve mind, or the more holistic view that the whole universe is an organism that possesses a mind. It is thus a stronger and more ambitious view than panvitalism, which holds only that all things are alive.

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Philosophy - Holistic - Panvitalism

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Panpsychism claims that everything is alive and sentient and that there are either many separate minds, or one single mind that unites everything that is. The concept of the unconscious, made popular by the psychoanalysts, made possible a variant of panpsychism that denies consciousness from some entities while still asserting the ubiquity of mind.

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Unconscious - Psychoanalysts

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