Panpsychism and Alfred North Whitehead

Featured 2, Philosophy

  Panpsychism recognizes that everything in the universe has a physical dimension and a mental dimension. Another way to put this is that some form of consciousness goes all the way down to the quantum dimension of the universe and all the way up to the galactic...

True Materialism

Philosophy

Panpsychism—the philosophy that everything has both a physical and a mental dimension all the way down through cells and atoms to the quantum level and all the way up through plants, insects, animals, and humans to the level of the Earth, the Solar System, and the...

Panpsychism

Philosophy of Consciousness, Philosophy of Science

Panpsychism is a philosophical movement that is growing and even beginning to gain acceptance in some scientific circles. (I locate Planetary Philosophy within the Panpsychic movement.) Materialism:  The traditional scientific paradigm of Materialism winds up with...

Time and the Great Transformation

Philosophy

Any scientist who thinks about it carefully, even one totally committed to the materialistic, deterministic, probabilistic model of explanation, has got to have some trouble with the idea that everything in the physical Universe is created out of nothing every instant...