David Abram and Matt Segall on Animism, Panpsychism, and the More than Human World

Abram and process philosopher Matt Segall compare two ways of describing a living world: animism, rooted in the felt experience of a landscape that gazes back, and panpsychism, the metaphysical claim that experience goes all the way down. Along the way they circle the questions this site keeps returning to — whether mind requires a body, what language does to perception, and how a culture of screens might recover its senses.