# Panpsychism **Domain:** Philosophy of Mind / Metaphysics **Doc Type:** Concept Node **Maturity:** Evolving **Related:** [[Hard Problem of Consciousness]], [[Integrated Information Theory]], [[Physicalism]], [[Consciousness]] --- ## Definition **Panpsychism** is the family of views holding that mentality or proto-experiential properties are fundamental and widespread rather than late exceptions in an otherwise wholly non-experiential universe. ## Corpus Context In [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]], panpsychism marks one serious alternative in the unsettled ontology of consciousness. It does not imply that every aggregate possesses unified personhood or rights. ## Key Insight **This node connects its historical or conceptual subject to the corpus without treating analogy as proof of direct influence.** ## See Also [[Hard Problem of Consciousness]], [[Integrated Information Theory]], [[Physicalism]], [[Consciousness]] ## Relationships - **Edge Annual Question source relationship:** [[collections/Edge|Edge]] preserves the annual-question source corpus from which a proposition-specific quotation is connected to this entry. ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > "Note that panpsychism needn't say that universe is just one mind. We can also say that each object has an individual mind. One way to visualize the distinction between the many minds and the one mind is to think of the world as a stained glass window with light shining through each pane. The world's physical structures break the undivided cosmic mind into a myriad of small minds, one in each object." > **— Rudy Rucker**, *2006, Edge Annual Question, “What Is Your Dangerous Idea?”* [[reminders/Consciousness/Every Object May Have a Mind by Rudy Rucker|Every Object May Have a Mind by Rudy Rucker]] ## Sources / Provenance - [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]]