Panpsychism seems like a bandaid to solve the hard problem of consciousness, which non-duality does not suffer from.
It doesn't even do that, it just pushes it down the stack.
If I ask, why is the sky blue, I don't want to hear "Because it's made of blue stuff."
Not only is it wrong, it doesn't have any explanatory power at all. Ultimately if you want to understand why something has a certain property, you want to know how it arises from the emergent behavior of something more fundamental. A hurricane isn't made of hurricane bits, and brains aren't made of consciousness particles.
Well, you are not going far if you hear only what you want to hear. PS sky is blue because you perceive it as blue.
Because it's not useful.
I know, pretty crazy of me there. Meanwhile I annoy car dealers by going in with an expectation of a vehicle that can actually get me from one place to another, rather than just sit there and amuse me.
Brahman—the ultimate, transcendent and immanent God of the latter Vedas—appears as the world because of its creative energy (māyā). The world has no separate existence apart from Brahman. The experiencing self (jīva) and the transcendental self of the Universe (ātman) are in reality identical (both are Brahman), though the individual self seems different as space within a container seems different from space as such. These cardinal doctrines are represented in the anonymous verse “brahma satyam jagan mithya; jīvo brahmaiva na aparah” (Brahman is alone True, and this world of plurality is an error; the individual self is not different from Brahman). Plurality is experienced because of error in judgments (mithya) and ignorance (avidya). Knowledge of Brahman removes these errors and causes liberation from the cycle of transmigration and worldly bondage.
Modern indian philosophy has hitherto been focused on problems specific to the nation-state: modernity, integral yoga, etc. But it will be interesting to see how it grapples with new discoveries in neuroscience.
The references in classical indian literature I really admire always refer to "destroying illusion (maya)". Learning how to remove false cognition from pure sense perception. And seeing things with the vision of Brahman ;)
Does anything remain? This is the big point of contention between Buddhists and Advaitins. We say there is, that say there isn’t. However the Mahayana concept of Tathagatagarbha does come to a similar conclusion in a roundabout way.
You seem well versed in the matter, can you recommend sources to learn more about all this ?
Which new discoveries in neuroscience affect the idea of Brahman?