Mind-at-Large

The Mind-at-Large is a three-year conference series, with associated film and other media, that investigates consciousness and its role in reality. The project seeks to challenge the common yet unnecessarily-restrictive worldview that posits that brains alone are required for consciousness. We seek to expand to a broader ‘mind-at-large’ set of theories by exploring mind’s presence across various scales, from quantum physics to ecosystems to the cosmos as a whole. This is a multidisciplinary project though anchored in Philosophy, looking at ideas including panpsychism, pantheism, 4E cognition, questions of AI and plant sentience, animism, perspectivism, idealism—as well as certain associated extraordinary phenomenologies such as those found in psychedelic states or paranormal phenomena. Prepare for the new paradigm.