Nigel I am a panpsychist, a science philosophy with ancient origins. To accept a science without a living consciousness is not contradictory to my beliefs, yet it is a challenge.

Since you are British I have a UK perspective regarding the origin of panpsychism science... https://www.noemamag.com/the-conscious-universe/
This is a fun read.


It has been said "life is the means that the universe created to know itself".

If we can momentarily presume this is true, there are secrets that the universe does not yet know about itself the same as the secrets within ourselves.