Panpsychism is not as crazy as it sounds.

[Angrboda]

Panpsychism is that the fundamental stuff of mind--which is not just electrochemical pulses but something more abstract, distinct from the physical, such as a thought of a pink elephant or a memory of a deceased family member--that IS a feature of the Universe as basic as gravity, and everything from the simplest forms of matter contain some form of it though it is realized by "us," our brain, our collection of cooperating and competing nerve cells, as conscious experience that emanates through countless, speedy neural firings

To my view, panspychism is just a short cut to solve the physicalist paradox. To a physicalist, that which contains thoughts is matter. Yet matter only contains more matter. How can it contain thoughts? Panpsychism takes the shortcut of postulating that all matter can contain thought. It's solving the physicalist paradox by simply asserting that "stuff" has the right properties, therefore there is no paradox. In that, it's not that different from substance dualism, which, also asserts that there's a substance which "just does have the right properties," and that thing is the soul or spirit. The substance dualist solves the problem by attributing thought to a substance separate from matter; panpsychism solves the problem by attributing thought as a basic property of matter. But do either of these approaches actually solve the problem, or do they just postpone the inevitable mechanistic account of how either soul-stuff or matter itself gives rise to the property of thought that we see?