the person with the dual-aspect neutral monism answer. [How is that different from panpyschism?]
Physicalism privileges the physical over the mental. Panpsychism privileges the mental over the physical. DANM does neither
Panpsychism holds the difference between the mental and the physical to be a matter of degree. If the problem of reconciling mental and physical causation is just that mental and physical properties belong to two different and irreconcilable categories, then it’s solved. But if the causal closure of the physical is true, it’s another story. If physical properties are sufficient to explain causality, then mental properties are redundant (or there is overdeteminism). Panpsychists regard physical properties as a kind of mental property, but the point remains the same … if a subset of properties is sufficient to explain and predict behaviour, the others are redundant. So panpsychism doesn’t address physical closure. If the higher level of mental properties are somehow identical to the load level or physical ones ,the difficulty is removed...But that it the step from panpsychism to DANM.
It’s desirable for solutions to the mind-body problem to explain the distribution of consciousness in a way that matches intuition. Sceptical theories, such as illusionism and eliminative materialism, predict too little—ie., none at all. Panspsychism, on the face of it, has the opposite problem: it suggests that everything, including sticks and stones, has mentality (or, for panexperientialism, consciousness). DANM is able to predict a distribution of conscious experience that is not wildly unintuitive. A rich subjective experience can only be the inner perspective on an informationally rich physical state, because the inner or mental perspective can’t add any new information—it is always a representation of existing information. So informationally simple entities don’t have significant mental life.
Physicalism privileges the physical over the mental. Panpsychism privileges the mental over the physical. DANM does neither
Panpsychism holds the difference between the mental and the physical to be a matter of degree. If the problem of reconciling mental and physical causation is just that mental and physical properties belong to two different and irreconcilable categories, then it’s solved. But if the causal closure of the physical is true, it’s another story. If physical properties are sufficient to explain causality, then mental properties are redundant (or there is overdeteminism). Panpsychists regard physical properties as a kind of mental property, but the point remains the same … if a subset of properties is sufficient to explain and predict behaviour, the others are redundant. So panpsychism doesn’t address physical closure. If the higher level of mental properties are somehow identical to the load level or physical ones ,the difficulty is removed...But that it the step from panpsychism to DANM.
It’s desirable for solutions to the mind-body problem to explain the distribution of consciousness in a way that matches intuition. Sceptical theories, such as illusionism and eliminative materialism, predict too little—ie., none at all. Panspsychism, on the face of it, has the opposite problem: it suggests that everything, including sticks and stones, has mentality (or, for panexperientialism, consciousness). DANM is able to predict a distribution of conscious experience that is not wildly unintuitive. A rich subjective experience can only be the inner perspective on an informationally rich physical state, because the inner or mental perspective can’t add any new information—it is always a representation of existing information. So informationally simple entities don’t have significant mental life.