dhw: An interesting digression, but it can't disguise the fact that you now realize you believe in intelligent particles which organized the universe, although earlier you dismissed the idea as "flights of fantasy" and "a bunch of micto-consciousnesses running around." Instead of calling them particles, we just have to call them godicles.-DAVID: You are not recognizing that all those godicles are part of God and under his centralized control at all times. Which is why I put God in the quantum realm.-You put God in all realms, since he is "part of everything, but that part remains interconnected to all other parts." But I am happy with your response, as it removes one of your major objections to my panpsychist hypothesis. Naturally you insist that the particles are part of God and under his control ... you are a theist! ... but now the discussion no longer revolves around whether particles can have some kind of intelligence. We agree that they have. And we agree that particles "organized [the universe] and have created a universe that allows us to exist." The question then becomes what is the source of the intelligence? And the idea that it may have evolved within the "discrete" particles, which then combined to organize the universe and life, is no more and no less fantastic than the idea that a superintelligence didn't evolve but has simply always been there. Stalemate.