PANPSYCHISM

Panpsychism is the philosophical belief that all matter has an element of consciousness. The doctrine that each object in the universe has either a mind or an unconscious soul or psyche. That all physical occurrences involve the mental. That all things animate or inanimate, possess some degree of consciousness. Consciousness is a fundamental feature of physical matter; every single particle in existence has an unimaginably simple form of consciousness. These particles then come together to form more complex forms of consciousness, such as human subjective experiences. This isn't meant to imply that particles have a coherent worldview or actively think, merely that there's some inherent subjective experience of consciousness in even the tiniest particle. One interpretation of the theory holds that any system is conscious. Rocks will be conscious, spoons will be conscious, the Earth will be conscious. Any kind of aggregation gives you consciousness. Perhaps electrons and quarks have incredibly basic forms of conscious experience. Panpsychism asserts that a plurality of separate and distinct psychic beings or minds constitutes reality. This is not to say that panpsychism believes that all matter is alive or even conscious, but rather that the constituent parts of matter are composed of some form of mind and are sentient. So in summation panpsychism is the extreme claim that everything in the physical world- all subatomic particles- are in some sense conscious or have a basic kind of proto- consciousness.