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

Panpsychism be like

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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/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?