For a phenomenological treatment, see The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram. The idea that consciousness exists throughout the world as a gradient is not ne

For a phenomenological treatment, see The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram. The idea that consciousness exists throughout the world as a gradient is not new. The modern industrial conception of mind (newly transformed by the technological revolution) prescribes a more limited domain for theories of the mind.