I thought the author was advocating for panspsychism, where all matter has a least a minimal amount of consciousness (or consciousness is what matter is non-rel

I thought the author was advocating for panspsychism, where all matter has a least a minimal amount of consciousness (or consciousness is what matter is non-relationally). Neutral monism means that matter and consciousness emerge from something which is neither (like math in the platonic sense or something we have no conception of).