Panpsychism isn't "crazy shit" we "tried long ago" and we haven't "moved on". She doesn't claim that panpsychism was tried a long time ago. She claims that N

Panpsychism isn't "crazy shit" we "tried long ago" and we haven't "moved on". She doesn't claim that panpsychism was tried a long time ago. She claims that Now, look, I know that physicists have a reputation of being narrow-minded. But the reason we have this reputation is that we tried the crazy shit long ago and just found it doesn’t work. She's saying physicists today have a reputation for narrow-mindedness because of their reaction to having tried out crazy shit in the past. Her definition of panpsychism is I recently discovered panpsychism. That’s the idea that all matter – animate or inanimate – is conscious, we just happen to be somewhat more conscious than carrots. She furthermore claims that electrons can't have consciousness and gives an argument for why. The author does not define panpsychism as the idea that a conscious particle would somehow affect the number of particles produced in a collision. I don't see how you could have concluded this from what she wrote. Her reason for discounting panpsychism is that --------- Since the particles have quantum properties, anything that can happen will happen. If a particle exists in many variants, you’ll produce them all – regardless of whether or not you can distinguish them. The result is that you see more of them than the standard model predicts. Now, if you want a particle to be conscious, your minimum expectation should be that the particle can change. It’s hard to have an inner life with only one thought. But if electrons could have thoughts, we’d long have seen this in particle collisions because it would change the number of particles produced in collisions. ---------- I think you have badly misinterpreted what was written. I make no claims on panpsychism since this is the first time I've heard the word. I do know that Sabine is a physicist and knows physics quite well. You could have seen this by clicking the "About" link on her blog.