I object to being called weird. It's quite a logical position to hold, many modern philosophers hold a panpsychist or similar view.
It's fine for magical world building, but it doesn't really make much sense, and when pressed on it, they just throw up their hands and cry "It's logical!" It's specious. It feels like Descartes and others trying to elevate the pineal gland to be mechacockpit for the soul, or Plato assuming that everything is a projection from some metaphysical form outside of reality.
It's fancy talk, that is pointed -- and sometimes proudly -- unfalsifiable.
Panpsychists say that consciousness always exists, all the way down, not that it emerges. It is a view born out of the rejection of the kind of emergence you are describing.