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Cosmopsychism
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Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Jul 18, 2017 11 facts
claimDetailed forms of cosmopsychism have been proposed by Mathews (2011), Jaskolla & Buck (2012), Shani (2015), Nagasawa & Wager (2016), and Goff (2017).
claimOn the cosmopsychist analogue of layered emergentism, human and animal minds are causally dependent on the conscious cosmos while remaining fundamental entities in their own right.
claimThe minimal commitment of cosmopsychism is that the universe is conscious, which is compatible with the view that the universe is a derivative entity grounded in facts about its parts.
claimIn contemporary philosophy, the "synecological" view of panpsychism is known as "(constitutive) cosmopsychism," while the "atomistic" view is known as "(constitutive) micropsychism."
perspectiveMost philosophers attracted to cosmopsychism argue that it is better fitted than micropsychism to address the combination problem.
claimCosmopsychists hold that the universe has some kind of experience, but they may refrain from attributing thought or agency to the universe, similar to how micropsychists hold that electrons have experience but not thought.
referenceYujin Nagasawa authored 'Panpsychism, Pantheism, Polytheisml, and Cosmopsychism', to be published in the collection 'Seager forthcoming'.
claimCosmopsychism is distinct from pantheism, which is the view that the universe is God.
claimCosmopsychism is the contemporary analogue of the 'synecological' forms of panpsychism defended by Fechner and Royce.
referenceThe chapter "Micropsychism, Cosmopsychism and the Grounding Relation" by Philip Goff is forthcoming in the book edited by Seager.
perspectiveYujin Nagasawa and Wager (2016) suggest that the structural mismatch problem is resolved by adopting cosmopsychism rather than micropsychism, as this removes the assumption that macro-level brain structure is derived from micro-level structure.
Non-physicalist Theories of Consciousness cambridge.org Dec 20, 2023 9 facts
referencePanpsychism is divided into cosmopsychism and non-cosmic (or smallist) panpsychism, as noted by Coleman (2006).
claimShani (2015), Goff (2017), and Kastrup (2018) are identified as defenders of cosmopsychism.
claimObjections to cosmopsychism include the observation that the universe lacks the unified structure required for a unified mind and that fundamental particles appear more unified than the cosmos from a physical perspective.
claimThe decombination problem is the version of the combination problem in cosmopsychism, which asks how less complex macroconsciousness arises from more complex cosmic consciousness or protoconsciousness.
claimCritics argue that the 'decombination' process in cosmopsychism is as difficult to explain as the combination process in constitutive panpsychism.
claimPanpsychism posits that simple consciousness combines in complex systems like the brain to form a unified consciousness, whereas cosmopsychism posits that cosmic consciousness 'decombines' to form less complex consciousness.
claimCosmopsychism posits that the entire universe possesses fundamental and unified consciousness.
claimCosmopsychism explains human consciousness as either constituted by (constitutive cosmic cosmopsychism) or causally produced by (emergent cosmopsychism) parts of the cosmic experience.
referencePhilip Goff (2017) argues that cosmopsychism provides a better explanation for how macroconsciousness is constituted by parts of a larger cosmic mind than constitutive panpsychism does for how it is constituted by simpler minds.
Panpsychism - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 7 facts
referenceYujin Nagasawa and Khai Wager authored the chapter 'Panpsychism and Priority Cosmopsychism' in the book 'Panpsychism', published by Oxford University Press in 2016.
claimCosmopsychism is described as either an alternative to panpsychism or a form of panpsychism.
claimCosmopsychism posits that human consciousness derives from a larger cosmic consciousness.
claimCosmopsychism hypothesizes that the cosmos is a unified object that is ontologically prior to its parts.
claimCosmopsychism differs from panpsychism because cosmopsychists view the cosmos as the fundamental level of reality, whereas panpsychists usually view the smallest level of reality as fundamental.
perspectiveProponents of cosmopsychism claim that the cosmos as a whole is the fundamental level of reality and that it instantiates consciousness.
claimAnand Vaidya and Purushottama Bilimoria have argued that Advaita Vedānta can be considered a form of panpsychism or cosmopsychism.
Theories and Methods of Consciousness biomedres.us Jan 29, 2024 5 facts
claimPost-materialists associate the essence of consciousness with panspiritism, cosmopsychism, or panpsychism, which are linked to nonlocal space, absolute vacuum, zero-point, or Akashic fields, and interpreted through the processes and concepts of quantum mechanics.
claimOne theoretical framework for consciousness, derived from post-materialist logic, suggests that subatomic particles of energy containing information and memory decombine from the zero-point field of the quantum realm to give rise to individuating consciousness, cosmopsychism, and panspiritism.
claimCosmopsychism posits that consciousness is a macro consciousness out of which individual consciousness emerged (Keppler, et al.).
claimUpon the disaggregation of material reality, consciousness becomes a permanent aspect of the multiverse, a concept termed 'cosmopsychism', which is described as a fifth force of nature whose elementary particle is received by aggregated matter possessing brains, brainstems, and central nervous systems.
referenceKeppler J and Shani I published 'Cosmopsychism and Consciousness Research: A Fresh View on the Causal Mechanisms Underlying Phenomenal States' in Frontiers in Psychology in 2020.
Panpsychism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2025 Edition) plato.stanford.edu May 23, 2001 3 facts
perspectiveNagasawa and Wager suggest that the grain problem is resolved by adopting cosmopsychism rather than micropsychism, because this approach does not assume the structure of the macro-level brain is derived from its micro-level structure.
claimPhilip Goff (2019) developed a form of cosmopsychism where the universe is a value-responding agent to explain the fine-tuning of physical laws for life.
claimThe minimal commitment of cosmopsychism is the assertion that the universe is conscious.
Hard problem of consciousness - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 3 facts
referenceItay Shani authored the paper 'Cosmopsychism: A holistic approach to the metaphysics of experience', published in Philosophical Papers in 2015.
claimObjective idealism and cosmopsychism consider mind or consciousness to be the fundamental substance of the universe.
claimProponents of objective idealism and cosmopsychism claim that this approach is immune to both the hard problem of consciousness and the combination problem that affects panpsychism.
Cross-Cultural Approaches to Consciousness: Mind, Nature, and ... books.google.com 1 fact
claimThe book 'Cross-Cultural Approaches to Consciousness: Mind, Nature, and Ultimate Reality' explores metaphysical and cognitive concepts including Panpsychism, cosmopsychism, illusionism, emergentism, and idealism.