> But that only seems to move the problem of what it actually is somewhere else, to some mysterious "mind stuff". That's true, but a rejoinder would be that an

> But that only seems to move the problem of what it actually is somewhere else, to some mysterious "mind stuff". That's true, but a rejoinder would be that anything fundamental is going to be mysterious. Why do fields, particles or quantum mechanics exist? Consciousness might be an emergent property from matter, but it's difficult to give a reductive account of that. The alternative is strong emergentism, which is just as mysterious as panpsychism. Why would something entirely new not logically entailed by the prior physics emerge at some point in the universe's history?