What does "panpsychist" mean?
A proponent of panpsychism.
Panpsychist
adj, noun
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A proponent of panpsychism.
- Grammar: panpsychist is listed as adj, noun.
- Nearest alternatives: adherent, idealist, idealistic, philosopher.
- Usage evidence: I label Rod, a bicyclist at the Lulu Island café, a spiritual "eclectic," this morning on the 22nd of August of 2022. He is a slim older white man. He talks to me, whilst I munch on salted vinegar potato chips with iced black tea, beside a favourite Spanish-language sci-fi book, Crónicas de Majipur, by Robert Silverberg. Rod believes that there is "one God," but I say that God could be either singular or plural, as number is a limitation on God. I wonder if he is a "pantheist" or "panpsychist," who believes that there is, at some level, the divine or the mind, respectively, in everybody and everything, even a "pillow." The terminology excites him. He shows me a video describing the complex Aztec calendar on his smartphone. The presentation is full of Aztec, aka Nahuatl, words, which he mistakes for "Mayan." I tell him that in ancient Mexico, the Aztecs were more like the Japanese, whilst the Maya were more like the Chinese. I utter some words presented in Nahuatl. He does not look too surprised that I know how to pronounce. We both have visited Mexico before.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A proponent of panpsychism.
"As the philosopher Philip Goff, one of the most prominent contemporary panpsychists, has pointed out, our belief that science will solve the mystery of consciousness, given that it triumphed in so many other areas, ignores that its success was predicated in the first place on the exclusion of the mind."
Adjective
- 1 Pertaining to, or in accordance with, the doctrine of panpsychism.
"1984, Timothy Sprigge, Santayana and Panpsychism, in Overheard in Seville: Bulletin of the Santayana Society, No. 2: Fall 1984, page 1, Santayana was certainly not a panpsychist. However, I believe that there are panpsychist tendencies in his work."
Example
"I label Rod, a bicyclist at the Lulu Island café, a spiritual "eclectic," this morning on the 22nd of August of 2022. He is a slim older white man. He talks to me, whilst I munch on salted vinegar potato chips with iced black tea, beside a favourite Spanish-language sci-fi book, Crónicas de Majipur, by Robert Silverberg. Rod believes that there is "one God," but I say that God could be either singular or plural, as number is a limitation on God. I wonder if he is a "pantheist" or "panpsychist," who believes that there is, at some level, the divine or the mind, respectively, in everybody and everything, even a "pillow." The terminology excites him. He shows me a video describing the complex Aztec calendar on his smartphone. The presentation is full of Aztec, aka Nahuatl, words, which he mistakes for "Mayan." I tell him that in ancient Mexico, the Aztecs were more like the Japanese, whilst the Maya were more like the Chinese. I utter some words presented in Nahuatl. He does not look too surprised that I know how to pronounce. We both have visited Mexico before."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "panpsychist"?
Common synonyms include: adherent, idealist, idealistic, philosopher, platonic, spiritualist.
How do you use "panpsychist" in a sentence?
I label Rod, a bicyclist at the Lulu Island café, a spiritual "eclectic," this morning on the 22nd of August of 2022. He is a slim older white man. He talks to me, whilst I munch on salted vinegar potato chips with iced black tea, beside a favourite Spanish-language sci-fi book, Crónicas de Majipur, by Robert Silverberg. Rod believes that there is "one God," but I say that God could be either singular or plural, as number is a limitation on God. I wonder if he is a "pantheist" or "panpsychist," who believes that there is, at some level, the divine or the mind, respectively, in everybody and everything, even a "pillow." The terminology excites him. He shows me a video describing the complex Aztec calendar on his smartphone. The presentation is full of Aztec, aka Nahuatl, words, which he mistakes for "Mayan." I tell him that in ancient Mexico, the Aztecs were more like the Japanese, whilst the Maya were more like the Chinese. I utter some words presented in Nahuatl. He does not look too surprised that I know how to pronounce. We both have visited Mexico before.
Etymology
From panpsychism + -ist.