Panpsychism

In Panpsychism in the West, the first comprehensive study of the subject, David Skrbina argues for the importance of panpsychism – the theory that mind exists, in some form, in all living and nonliving things – in consideration of the nature of consciousness and mind.

In Panpsychism in the West, the first comprehensive study of the subject, David Skrbina argues for the importance of panpsychism – the theory that mind exists, in some form, in all living and nonliving things – in consideration of the nature of consciousness and mind. Panpsychism, with its conception of mind as a general phenomenon of nature, uniquely links being and mind.

In this book, the author takes a stand for a variant of panpsychism as being the best solution available to the mind-body problem. More exactly, he defends a view that can be labelled 'dual-aspect-pan-proto-psychism'. Panpsychism claims that mentality is ubiquitous to reality, and in combination with dual-aspect monism it claims that anything, from fundamental particles to rocks, trees, and human animals, has two aspects: a physical aspect and a mental aspect