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Panpsychism is the extreme claim that everything in the physical world—all subatomic particlesare in some sense ‘conscious’ or have a basic kind of ‘protoconsciousness’. Why are an increasing number of leading philosophers taking panpsychism seriously? Something must be up. Could it be doubt that the scientific project to explain consciousness has failed?

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Yujin Nagasawa is the Kingfisher College Chair of the Philosophy of Religion and Ethics, and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oklahoma.

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