نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
عنوان مقاله English
نویسنده English
This study offers a comparative investigation of consciousness, and tasbih in the Qur’an vis à vis Panpsychism in the philosophy of mind. The Qur’an repeatedly speaks of cognition and tasbih among all entities, granting every element of existence life and undestanding. By contrast, Panpsychists claim that consciousness inheres in all particles of matter. Employing descriptive, analytical, and comparative methods, this paper argues that the principal challenges to Panpsychism—such as explaining mental causation in harmony with causal closure, and the combination problem—stem from its physicalist basis. These difficulties are irrelevant to the Qur’anic view, which rests on transcendence; a coherent account of Panpsychism is only attainable through recognition of the metaphysical dimension. Findings indicate that the Qur’an and Panpsychism both affirm universal consciousness but differ profoundly in ontological foundations. In Qur’anic thought, every atom of being is a creation of Divine Wisdom, and the consciousness and tasbih of creatures are purposive acts directed toward the recognition and praise of God, for every being possesses a share of knowledge and life in proportion to the degree of its participation in Being. Panpsychism, however, considers universal consciousness a merely natural property, devoid of divine orientation, arising from structural features of matter and governed by physicalism and causal closure. Thus, the similarity between Qur’anic thought and Panpsychism regarding consciousness is only verbal, not conceptual; they share language but not essence, therefore the two should not be regarded as identical.
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