Just wondering, have you ever looked into panpsychism? A good explanation I found on ( http://www.panpsychism.net/html/what_is_it.html rest of the article is kind of disorganized though):

“Christian de Quincey said “If both mind and matter are real, and are not separate substances, and neither can emerge or evolve from the other, then both matter and mind have always existed together, are coextensive, co-eternal and in some way, co-creative. Panpsychism, variously called panexperientalism or radical materialism, proposes that matter (or physical energy) itself is intrinsically sentient or experiental, all the way down.” (When de Quincey says, “all the way down,” he means from the entire universe down through the sub atomic particles or waves.)”