2 papers in the library · 79 citations · publishing 2016-2025
2025 Khai Wager
Is the cosmos itself conscious, and could our minds be aspects of its vast, overarching consciousness? In this ambitious and original study, Khai Wager defends cosmopsychism, the view that the universe as a whole is conscious and that individual minds like ours derive from this cosmic consciousness. Wager situates cosmopsychism within what he calls the landscape of fundamental consciousness,...
Oxford University Press eBooks October 20, 2016 Yujin Nagasawa, Khai Wager 79 citations
This chapter explicates a version of holistic panpsychism, “priority cosmopsychism,” which is understood as a holistic alternative to classical micropanpsychism. Priority cosmopsychism inherits the idea that there is—ontologically speaking—the whole as well as its respective parts from Schafferian priority monism. Despite this quasi-realistic concept of the respective parts, priority monists...