Inorganic subjective states exist as a kind of thermal intelligence which models objective states in order to predict the future (active inference). That’s why entropy doesn’t reduce the universe to thermal equilibrium. So in the FEP reference frame (FEP-RF), everything which exists physically has internal subjective states which model objective states. That’s what it means “to exist”. It’s this fundamental thermal intelligence which biology leverages to construct subjective experience (consciousness). 

It’s like how oxygen and hydrogen on their own don’t have the thermal properties of water. But joined into H2O and multiplied into millions of gallons, we get an evolution of new thermal properties. That shouldn’t lead us to the conclusion that these thermal properties already existed within individual atoms of oxygen/hydrogen, right? That’s what you’re doing with pantheism. You’re saying that the thermal property of biology (consciousness) must already exist in the inorganic substrate. But that not how the evolution of thermal properties work. Each stage of thermal evolution results in new thermal properties not present in the individual components. I think that’s what we are dealing with in biological systems. Consciousness is an evolution of fundamental thermal intelligence latent within all inorganic subjective states.

What do you think? 😊🙏