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Many thinkers, past and present, have seen fit to challenge these two assumptions. On the basis of their philosophical reasoning, intuitive insights, and investigations into the natural world, they came to reject such assumptions s largely groundless and unjustifiable. They saw no compelling reason to limit mind or mental capacities to humans and higher animals. On the contrary, they found justification for seeing mind in the lower animals, plants, microbes, and even the inorganic realm. On such a view, mind becomes a general and perhaps fundamental property of nature. Mind would then exist, in some form, in all things. Broadly speaking, this is the view known as “Panpsychism”.

Philosophical arguments often turn on interpretations of definitions. This is particularly so with issues of mind and consciousness -- and perhaps even more so with panpsychism. Though the concept is ancient, the term itself was coined by Italian philosopher Francesco Patrizi in the late sixteenth century. It derives from the Greek pan (“all”) and psyche (“soul” or “mind”). The association of psyche with ”soul” is problematic for many contemporary secular and naturalist philosophers, and thus I will, for the most part, leave that issue aside. Here I will take psyche to mean “mind” as commonly - in vaguely -- understood `

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