Panpsychism: What the -ism is it?

I now wish to deal with the first question ‘What do I define panpsychism to be?’.

The reason I've asked what do 'I' consider panpsychism to be, rather than what 'is' panpsychism; is that panpsychism is not a single theory or tradition, it is a meta-theory, so you can be a 'Panpsychist' and have a wide range of views.

Therefore it's important to say whose panpsychism I am referring to, and the whom I'm mainly referring to is the philosopher Galen Strawson.

In the following podcast and lecture you can a pretty clear view of his position.
Philosophy Bites, Galen Strawson On Panpsychism:


http://alturl.com/32shq 


Bristol UWE, Human Experience and Nature, Galen Strawson On Real Naturalism:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30laetzUf2Y&feature=youtu.be

Its worth noting that Strawson is attempting a naturalistic account of consciousness (that all phenomena exist within the universe) therefore consciousness as a naturally occurring phenomena is explicable by the laws of nature.

Strawson's main critique of people who he refers to as ‘phySICalist’(people who believe th at all natural phenomena can be explained by the domain of physics) is that they either deny consciousness (which to Strawson is an absurd view) or they make consciousness a seemingly supernatural event that suddenly pops into existence from unrelated phenomena.

The panpsychism I am dealing with regards consciousness as natural occurring and embedded within the fundamental constituents of matter (whether that be quarks or atoms etc.)

But other than consciousness being an innate and natural occurring phenomenon I don’t feel I need to commit to a more nuanced posistion to deal with other philosophical problems such as combination: how do little consciousness atoms arrive to a seemingly singular experience such as ourselves - though it can certainly be an avenue I can explore 'through' my practise.