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Panpsychism

Philosophy
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Panpsychism holds that consciousness or mind is fundamental and ubiquitous—even in matter. It challenges human exceptionalism in cognition.

Detailed Definition
Poetry animates panpsychism by granting voice to stones, rivers, or stars. Philosophically, it fosters ecological empathy, dissolving subject-object divides—where the lyric becomes dialogue with sentient cosmos, and all things participate in a shared interiority beyond human scale.
Example
Example in poetry:
William Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” imbues nature with feeling; Rainer Maria Rilke’s “The Panther” grants animal inner life; Percy Shelley’s “The Cloud” speaks as conscious atmosphere; Mary Oliver’s poems treat geese, owls, and rivers as sentient; Li-Young Lee’s “The Cleaving” sees spirit in meat and knife; Gary Snyder’s “Riprap” treats stones as wise companions on trail.
Additional Notes
Panpsychism sees mind as ubiquitous—even in matter. In poetry, it appears as animate nature: Wordsworth’s daffodils, Snyder’s stones. Students should analyze how poems dissolve subject/object divide. Related to animism, deep ecology, and posthumanism. Professors can contrast it with mechanistic worldviews.
Also Known As
Universal consciousness Panexperientialism
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