The author should brush up on his history. This is panpsychism and it is a very old idea, going back to Spinoza. Einstein was a adherent of that idea as well, in his own way.
As to it's truth of it, that's somewhat above my pay-grade.
As to it's truth of it, that's somewhat above my pay-grade.
I guess he uses the term less these days because it's too easily dismissed as something esoteric.