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Pampsychism vs Panpsychism - What's the difference?

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Panpsychism is a alternative form of pampsychism.



As nouns the difference between pampsychism and panpsychism

is that pampsychism is an alternative spelling of panpsychism while panpsychism is the doctrine that all matter has a mental aspect. (Many panpsychists employ the qualification that only “true individuals” are animated; that is, that things like atoms, molecules, and organisms are animated as atoms, molecules, and organisms, whereas things like rocks, tables, and boots are not animated as themselves, although they do comprise animate elements..

pampsychism

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • * 1958 , (second edition), page 175:
  • We have an embarrassing number of cosmic personalisms, or pampsychisms , to choose from.

    panpsychism

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (philosophy, uncountable) The (l) that all (l) has a mental (l). ()
  • (philosophy, countable) A specific panpsychist doctrine or system.
  • Usage notes

    * Panpsychism is often conflated with a number of other concepts with which it is associated or which bear some resemblance to it. These conflated concepts include animism (the supernaturalistic belief in a multitude of — more or less anthropomorphic — spirits animating the features of the world, characteristic of many traditional tribal religions); pansensism and hylopathism (doctrines that everything senses'' — very closely related to panpsychism); hylozoism, panbiotism, and panzoism (doctrines that all matter is intrinsically alive; their similarities with and distinctiveness from panpsychism chiefly centres on how the underlying concepts of “life” and “mentality” are defined); panexperientialism (the doctrine that everything ''experiences'' — “at present the most fully articulated form of panpsychism”(David Skrbina), ''Panpsychism in the West , (MIT Press) (2005), ISBN 9780262693516, page 21); pantheism and panentheism (doctrines that God or the Divine Principle “saturate” the Cosmos — in the former God is identical with the universe and every material thing is a part of God; in the latter God transcends the universe); and the doctrine of the world soul (which states that the universe in its totality has a single unifying spirit — such a doctrine is usually panentheistic).

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