Iain McGilchrist's water metaphor of consciousness
I don't know who this guy is, but I listened to the second episode about him. This is at 1 hour 50 minutes.
He compared consciousness to "water that falls on the land". So, water is not the same as land, but they interact. Land allows the water to flow in some places and not in others. This would translate into the idea that consciousness exists in some places, where matter allows it to exist or funnels it.
It's a nice idea in some ways, but problematic from a rigorous panpsychist viewpoint. It implies that consciousness moves through the world or even has a destination or cycle, like water. That might make sense if you believe that consciousness is divided into souls, but there's no evidence for that.
I mean the idea that consciousness moves either through matter or through space. If it exists everywhere, then where does it come from and where does it go, if there's movement? Are there different concentrations of consciousness in different places?
If your consciousness moves along with your brain when you move through space, if it's attached to matter, then again I think that's basically assuming there's a soul. But the simplest, most rational model is that consciousness exists everywhere.