concept

Panpsychism

The view that consciousness is a fundamental property present everywhere in matter - from electrons and atoms up to galaxies - rather than something that suddenly appears only in sufficiently complex brains. Through the panpsychist lens, the idea of a conscious planet sounds far from absurd, since everything carries at least a spark of minimal experience. Modern science, however, largely resists this, insisting on structural and architectural prerequisites (like recurrent feedback) before a system counts as conscious - not mere existence.