Hello Bob, very excited to read this from you. There are so many strands of what I have learned the past few years about physics, psychology and all that lead in the direction you are pointing. That's why I have come to believe that dual aspect monism is the best explantion for mind and matter, and that the unitary whole that underlies all reality is, as Bohm says, beyond physics. More about this in the article I am working on now, and then a conclusio about how this aligns with thinkers like Eddington, Pauli, Wheeler and some prominent philosophers.

Pansychism is an interesting question and those who advocate it, like Goff and even Chalmers to some extent, seem to do so to avoid what I consider a more likely conclusion: an underlying consciousness with intent and will. They look for it in particles, but Bohm says the particles or quantities of fields and their relations are part of the "explicate order" that is directed somehow by the implicate order and active information that lies beneath. So I think they need to go down one layer, a layer of wholeness that cannot be answered by pansychism. The big problem with pansychism is the combination problem. So if each quark in my brain has consciousness, how does it combine into the awareness I have?