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Cartophilic's avatar

From an LDS perspective the doctrine that intelligence (or the light of truth) is neither created nor made nor indeed can be suggests that experience is a necessary property. Points for panpsychism.

Henrik Sorensen's avatar

Echoing the above comment, Mormonism seems to espouse a sort of hybrid dualism/panpsychism in which all matter has a certain consciousness but not everything is ensouled per se. Much to think about.

Soarin' Søren Kierkegaard's avatar

It does lend itself to that—it very strongly implies that at least some matter is innately conscious; still a bit of a jump to all matter being innately conscious on some level, but a very reasonable jump.