/lit/ - Literature

I've been thinking a lot about the hard problem of consciousness. In particular, the panpsychist/panexperientialist view supported by Alfred North Whitehead, Galen Strawson, Spinoza, etc has captured my attention as a compelling solution.

For the uninitiated, panpsychism essentially asserts that consciousness (or merely experience) manifests ubiquitously through reality, in particles, organisms, and possibly higher level systems such as ecosystems, societies, and celestial phenomena.

From what I can gather, there don't seem to be any proposed solutions to the hard problem outside of panpsychism, eliminative materialism, or possibly an esoteric kind of enactivism put forward by Francisco Varela et al.

Despite some minor internal issues with panpsychism such as the combination problem (which I argue does not arise in the Whiteheadian process philosophy formulation of panpsychism), the view seems to neatly address many of the issues in the philosophy of mind compared to the competing views.

Is there anyone on this board that knows anything about this material and wants to have a conversation? This stuff is really fascinating, and I'm trying to inch my way towards a position on the hard problem.