PS : I am just fascinated by panpsychism and how it directly reflects my personal experience. There's been more talk on theories of consciousness and I feel like it is worth exploring. The science vs philosophy beef feels so counterproductive.

...science should encourage thinking outside of the box, so that we can expand the boundaries of that box if applicable. We need both skeptics and dreamers working together. Without the skeptics, we get pseudoscience, without dreamers, science falls stagnant.

...Who's to say panpsychism will *never* provide a similar breakthrough? Maybe the theory isn't correct in entirety, but that doesn't mean *all* of the theory would be incorrect or useless. Feels very arrogant to suggest that black and white approach when...

...which was met with hostility, ignored, and laughed at, until we eventually did find evidence to prove its validity. There's a heavy survivorship bias there, giving those theories the "pass" that it was always worth pursuing because it eventually became useful...