Hugh Johnson
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Good of you to point that out. It was my understanding that cosmopsychism was a subset of panpsychism, with micropsychism being the bottom-up approach to conciousness. At least that is how most articles describe it. I would suggest that this here is a rather subtle argument that has been had previously between Holism/Vedanta and Non-Duality/Advaita, and I lean towards the non-dual approach. I'll let Spira himself explain.The author's argument is NOT panpsychism and he explains its limitations related to the bottom-up approach to consciousness. His proposition is cosmopsychism - i.e. all matter is conscious because the Universe as whole is conscious. He gives the analogy with the table as an illustration.
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