A Cynical Argument for Panpsychism

Over the past several decades, we've barely avoided nuclear war, and we've continued global warming, overfishing, etc. Unless we change course, we will destabilize the environment we depend on, and completely deplete the cheap fuels other civilizations could begin with. From a sufficiently distant perspective, we would look more like an infection on our biosphere than like a self-aware creative society.

So it seems quite straighforward to think that inert matter is made up of many minds, who simply aren't arranged so as to communicate and cooperate with each other. And while the minds of living cells need resources as we do, the minds or proto-minds of mere particles may not - fortunately for the rest of us.

But it remains quite hard to think how our minds could be made up of non-minds.