Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz distinguished between 'mere aggregates' and 'organic unities' (organisms) to explain why some physical systems have minds or mental attributes while others do not, despite his panpsychist view.

Authors

• Person: William Seager, Sean Allen-Hermanson Organization: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  Panpsychism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2015 Edition)

Sources

• Panpsychism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2015 Edition) plato.stanford.edu William Seager, Sean Allen-Hermanson · Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy via serper

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• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz entity
• organisms concept
• panpsychism concept