There's a fear of moving outside of the materialist redoubts of your philosophical apprenticeship. The characterisation of panpsychism as a desperate answer arising out of bafflement is an example of the 'what are things coming to' panic. Were Bertrand Russell, A.N. Whitehead and Henri Bergson , for three, desperate men? Hardly. When Daniel Kaufman asks – does that mean that a muon is conscious and how is that not an empirical question – he is painting a bullseye around a haphazard arrow. The point about panpsychist consciousness is that it is not focussed on individual consciousness beings, this person, that muon, but on the steady increase towards the personal from rocks 'n gas. What is the nature of reality such that this is possible. That I would suggest is a metaphysical question. Daniel and Massimo flail at this unkillable monster here:
meaning of life
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