 In the Mikrokosmus, Lotze emphasizes that panpsychism is strongly motivated from the impetus to counter, in some fashion, the excesses of materialism. But this very “justification,” he comments, is simultaneously “the source of the barrenness of this view” (Micro, I, p. 151): we don’t like materialism, so we appeal to panpsychism, adopting the counter-hypothesis that simply “ascribes to matter a secret mental life” (ibid.). But why in the world ought we do that?