you could particularly feel that vague miasma whenever he (or someone similar) started explaining that if you thought of the universe as conscious you might treat it differently What’s that you say? It’s *that* it’s conscious, not *how* it feels that matters? Even if it’s only a teeny bit?

They talk about the “combination problem” as almost literally a co-ordination problem between miniature souls, rather than a hanging explanandum: if ‘consciousness’ is like *this* (love, fear, etc.), then what in the first place do oodles of tiny qualia do to explain that?