pan-psychism, Aristotelianism, agency

Pan psychism is a clumsy way of recognizing the need for final and formal causality in nature.  And it seems less whimsical once one considers that our knowledge of final causality in nature has its roots in our self knowledge, i.e., our knowledge of self as agent.  For both an Aristotelian and a pan-psychist might agree (albeit for different reasons) that lower-than-human entities are, in a sense, diminished versions of human agents.