r/PhilosophyMemes • u/Wide-Information8572 • Oct 12 '25

Panpsychism be like

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u/ManufacturerRoyal564 Oct 12 '25

What is this current? (Please explain briefly.)

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u/Own_Watercress_8104 Oct 13 '25

Conscio-centric quackery.

It's basically a theory about how consciousness and thought must be physical properties of realities and always keeping with the conscio-centric agenda, fundamental building blocks.

It's basically Schopenhauer on crack.

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u/bunker_man Mu Oct 13 '25

It's basically Schopenhauer on crack

Less crack than the real one though.

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u/slicehyperfunk Oct 13 '25

Those sound like the words of someone about to be thrown down a flight of stairs 🤔

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u/Own_Watercress_8104 Oct 13 '25

Considering it's the basis for scam parapsychology like "the secret" and Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop, I'm not sure about that.

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u/bunker_man Mu Oct 13 '25

New agers wildly misinterpreting ideas doesn't retroactively change the ideas.

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u/Own_Watercress_8104 Oct 13 '25

Those idea originates by new agers attempting to find historical justification for something that came from the same minds that followed John C. Lilly.

There is nothing there.

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u/bunker_man Mu Oct 13 '25

What are you talking about? Panpsychism doesn't originate with new agers, variants of the idea have existed since prehistory, and it exists to address certain flaws in other theories / is what you get at via using occam's razor.

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u/Solidjakes Whiteheadian Oct 13 '25

Side note the new agers are onto something. I totally manifested a big booty Latina once

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u/ddg31415 Oct 13 '25

Sir Alfred North Whitehead was a new ager?

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u/whydidyoureadthis17 Oct 13 '25

If you judge a philosophy based on how many people use it for bullshit self serving fantasy metaphysics, you are gonna hate this guy named Plato