Meanings
- uncountableThe belief that all matter is sentient in some form.
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It is certainly true that Whitehead's philosophy could be seen as a form of panexperientialism, in that all of reality is constituted as experience, and perhaps even hylopathism, where all matter is viewed as being sentient (insofar as it experiences) and gives rise to higher-order subjective experiences […]
2014, Jon Mills, Underworlds
Origin
From hylo- (“wood, matter”) + πᾰ́σχειν (pắskhein, “to experience, to feel, to suffer”) + -ism.
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