Panpsychism often conveys the impression that there are something like atoms of primitive consciousness in physical objects on the smallest scale. These prehensions, precursors of apprehensions, are like tiny grey-glimmering corpuscles of sentience inside the dark heart of matter. And when such matter is rightly configured they can somehow magically bind together and assume their own evolutionary development. This way of imagining it still views consciousness as a sort of ghostly mind-stuff, and it also meets up with the idea of the initial form of consciousness as a sort of dim and one dimensional sense-certainty. Such notions may be premised on the common mistake of equating consciousness with with the quality of sensory experience, qualia in effect. If however consciousness is taken as presencing without sensory commitment, then doesn't this rather point to simply being in a world, something that doesn't have degrees, doesn't attenuate or intensify. Panpsychism on this view would have to grant full citizenship to every entity without any need for 'binding' - and hence the peculiar pathos and beauty of things as they are. Mostly what we think of as consciousness, therefore are only phenomena of mind. And so in looking in the mind for consciousness we are always looking in exactly the wrong direction. If consciousness is hidden it can only be in plain sight.