Panpsychism , does it align with Christianity?

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The idea that the universe as a whole is conscious and self aware or that everything in the universe is conscious and self aware .

There are variations on the concept, and degrees , but the gist is generally the same .

I’m not completely sold on the idea , but I find it intriguing, and see where it might be shoe horned into Christian concepts .

Has anyone else explored this topic personally?

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Do you see “the search icon” in the upper right hand corner ? Click on it and enter panpsychism and you’ll get two choices, “all instances of that word in this forum” and “all instances in this thread”. There are 29 instances of that word in the whole forum:

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Aye. It’s complete and utter fantasy. And even Asimov appeared to flirt with it.

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At the very least, since consciousness and awareness is about information processing, the time scale for the universe as a whole must be vastly longer and far more simplistic. Frankly even viruses look far far more sophisticated by comparison.

So yeah… mostly fantasy would be an understatement.

Gaia theory (earth as a conscious entity) would be more reasonable, but we are still talking about vastly longer and far more simplistic, at the very least.

And align with Christianity? LOL No. I would say rather that this is the appeal of other religions like Native American, Far Eastern, and paganism… what my wife would call older religion.

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Since I mentioned it in another thread. Yeah to me it aligns perfectly fine with Christianity. Most people don’t really understand what it is. The first time they hear it, which may have been recently for some of yall. It’s not that everything has spirits or thoughts. It’s not animism or spiritualism. It’s less supernatural than everything has a magical soul that continues after death.

So first of all there is no theory of consciousness. Just hypothesis and thoughts. They don’t know how or when consciousness existed by any meaningful scientific means.

So we know that humans are consciousness beings.
We know animals are conscious beings.
So does that mean that consciousness is only experienced by animals? What about tardigrades? They are microscopic. They belong to the subkingdom Eumetazoa. Do the others in that kingdom have consciousness? What about animals like jellyfish? Or sponges? Oysters? Do you have to have a brain to be something that has experiences? How does “instincts” play a role in this? How do so many animals instinctively have behaviors that guide them without them having ever experienced it?

Now what most people do is they don’t bother with questions like this. They just say “ rocks have souls….. stupid…..” and that’s not even what it is. They can’t answer all these much closer questions honestly or with knowledge, so they jump so far away to where they think it’s easier to argue it. But if you step back one step at a time, most can’t or won’t have anything to really contribute to it.

Lastly whatever “scientific reasoning” you’re using for why it’s silly please enlighten me with the science behind how you know god has consciousness.

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I guess you could say that God links all life together and could impart that in some way, but it would be pushing the boat out.

Richard