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Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu May 23, 2001 3 facts
claimWilliam Clifford argued that evolution cannot involve an enormous jump where an entirely novel, non-physical fact is introduced, implying that even the lowest organisms like the Amoeba possess something of the same nature as human consciousness.
claimGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz distinguished between 'mere aggregates' (like a heap of sand) and 'organic unities' or organisms, based on whether a dominant monad represents the point of view of the system.
claimIn Leibniz's philosophy, organisms are hierarchically ordered sets of monads, whereas mere aggregates lack this hierarchical organization and thus lack a unified mental aspect.
Life, Intelligence, and Consciousness: A Functional Perspective longnow.org Aug 27, 2025 1 fact
claimOrganisms learn data regularities important to survival either through evolutionary timescales or individual experience.
Consciousness (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2025 ... plato.stanford.edu Jun 18, 2004 1 fact
claimSince the demise of vitalism, 'life' is not considered a distinct entity or additional component of reality, but rather a term applied to living things, organisms, states, properties, and evolutionary lineages.
Structural Organization of the Human Body | Anatomy and ... courses.lumenlearning.com 1 fact
claimThe human body is organized into levels of increasing complexity, which include subatomic particles, atoms, molecules, organelles, cells, tissues, organs, organ systems, organisms, and the biosphere.
Ecology: Nature's Interactions and Ecosystem Dynamics scholarsresearchlibrary.com 1 fact
referenceOrganismal ecology focuses on individual organisms and their interactions with the environment, specifically examining how organisms adapt to environmental challenges such as competition, predation, and environmental stresses like drought or temperature extremes.
Panpsychism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2015 Edition) plato.stanford.edu May 23, 2001 1 fact
claimGottfried 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.
Ecologists Study the Interactions of Organisms and Their Environment nature.com 1 fact
claimEcological studies are conducted at various scales, ranging from individual organisms, single species populations, and multiple species communities to entire ecosystems or the Earth as a whole.
Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Jul 18, 2017 1 fact
claimAssuming the falsity of dualism, the intrinsic nature of the matter found in brains or whole organisms is consciousness-involving.
The Hard Problem of Consciousness | Springer Nature Link link.springer.com 1 fact
quoteDavid Chalmers states: “A view like this has the potential to answer the subject combination problem. Anything that is aware of a quality is a subject, so if this approach can show how brains or organisms stand in the awareness relation to qualities, then it will show how brains or organisms can be subjects. On the other hand, the fact that awareness requires subjects might simply suggest that the awareness combination problem is just as hard as the subject combination problem and is subject to the same sort of worries”