I’ve failed to parse your specific disagreements with materialist account consciousness, but anyway:
How can they exist when the equations that we claim describe everything seem to leave no room for them whatsoever?
They leave the room in that part where we additionally say “these equations describe what exists”—panpsychism solves the hard problem in a way compatible with materialism.
When we see something blue, we don’t just “process incoming light of a certain wavelength in such a way as to create a pattern of mental activity that causes us to report having seen blue”, or whatever materialist story you want to tell. We see blue.
They are the same thing. Stated differently, anything that processes incoming light of a certain wavelength in such a way as to create a pattern of mental activity that causes it to report having seen blue, will see blue. Whether it’s the same blue is a matter of arbitrary drawn concept bounds. And if you asking “how can you be sure”, then the key thing to realize is that you also can’t be precisely sure you yourself have seen blue—maybe your memory from a second ago was artificially constructed.
I’ve failed to parse your specific disagreements with materialist account consciousness, but anyway:
They leave the room in that part where we additionally say “these equations describe what exists”—panpsychism solves the hard problem in a way compatible with materialism.
They are the same thing. Stated differently, anything that processes incoming light of a certain wavelength in such a way as to create a pattern of mental activity that causes it to report having seen blue, will see blue. Whether it’s the same blue is a matter of arbitrary drawn concept bounds. And if you asking “how can you be sure”, then the key thing to realize is that you also can’t be precisely sure you yourself have seen blue—maybe your memory from a second ago was artificially constructed.