Everything from animals to plants to atoms has consciousness, a scientific theory that is gaining momentum
"Consciousness is usually treated as a human problem, tied to brains and behavior. Yet for centuries some thinkers have quietly asked whether experience might reach far beyond our skulls, right down to the building blocks of matter.
That radical possibility – panpsychism – holds that every bit of the universe possesses a flicker of experience, however faint."
"Consciousness is usually treated as a human problem, tied to brains and behavior. Yet for centuries some thinkers have quietly asked whether experience might reach far beyond our skulls, right down to the building blocks of matter.
That radical possibility – panpsychism – holds that every bit of the universe possesses a flicker of experience, however faint."