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title: "Panpsychism · Library · Simulation Hypothesis"
url: https://simulation-hypothesis.com/library/panpsychism
description: "Panpsychism is the view that mind is basic and everywhere, so even elementary physical things have some tiny form of experience."
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
credit: "Ross Allan Dahl, Simulation Hypothesis (simulation-hypothesis.com)"
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## Philosophy of mind

# Panpsychism

Definition

Panpsychism is the view that mind is basic and everywhere, so even elementary physical things have some tiny form of experience.

On this site

The top of the inner-lives ladder, Everything, gives every particle a micro-experience at one operation per second.

Role in the model

The top of the inner-lives ladder is labelled Everything. At that setting every particle gets a tiny experience at one operation per second. The total barely changes. That’s the panpsychist’s point: experience may be cheap, free, or already included.

Related

[Consciousness](https://simulation-hypothesis.com/library/consciousness)[The hard problem](https://simulation-hypothesis.com/library/hard-problem)

## The people behind the terms

14 short pages, one per thinker, each with its matching dial. See also the [reading list](https://simulation-hypothesis.com/reading).

[Plato’s cave](https://simulation-hypothesis.com/thinkers/plato)[Zhuangzi’s butterfly](https://simulation-hypothesis.com/thinkers/zhuangzi)[Vasubandhu’s dream](https://simulation-hypothesis.com/thinkers/vasubandhu)[Shankara’s māyā](https://simulation-hypothesis.com/thinkers/shankara)[al-Ghazali’s doubt](https://simulation-hypothesis.com/thinkers/ghazali)[Ibn Arabi’s imagination](https://simulation-hypothesis.com/thinkers/ibn-arabi)[Calderón’s life is a dream](https://simulation-hypothesis.com/thinkers/calderon)[Descartes’ demon](https://simulation-hypothesis.com/thinkers/descartes)[Berkeley’s perceiver](https://simulation-hypothesis.com/thinkers/berkeley)[Borges’ circular ruins](https://simulation-hypothesis.com/thinkers/borges)[Nozick’s experience machine](https://simulation-hypothesis.com/thinkers/nozick)[Putnam’s brain in a vat](https://simulation-hypothesis.com/thinkers/putnam)[Bostrom’s trilemma](https://simulation-hypothesis.com/thinkers/bostrom)[Chalmers: virtual worlds are real](https://simulation-hypothesis.com/thinkers/chalmers)