So epigenetics was dismissed by Dawkins, but he also said Panpsychism, he was very dismissive of it when he first heard of it.
One of the most popular is called Panpsychism, which is the idea that all material things(down to the level of atoms)
have a degree of sentience, or consciousness, even if it is infinitesimally small, or just a kind of‘protoconsciousness.'.