“Panpsychism means that everything is conscious. As we shall see … Spinoza clearly argues that everything is conscious, though that does not mean that everything possesses self-consciousness or a complex mind.”

I have not seen this in Spinoza’s philosophy. Can you direct me to your writing on this?

I have never come across a comprehensive explanation for negentropy, or syntropy, as it relates to the tendency of animate and inanimate matter to organize; to evolve. Spinoza wrote about motion and rest, inertia, that bodies “are compelled by other bodies to remain in contact,” “that together they compose one body or individual, which is distinguished from other bodies by this fact of union.” I believe Spinoza was on to answering this mystery, but I am unclear as to any further explanation. Why this universal compulsion toward progress, especially in opposition to entropy? Can you expound upon this?

Thank you.