Mind-at-Large Project: A New Dawn
Event Type:
- Conference
- (Online)
Organizers:
- Center for Process Studies, CIIS Department of Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness, University of Exeter, and American College of Greece
The Mind-at-Large Project is a three-year, multidisciplinary inquiry into consciousness and its role in the nature of reality. Rooted in philosophy yet reaching across the sciences, the arts, and spiritual traditions, the project challenges the prevailing assumption that mind is confined to human brains alone. Instead, it explores the possibility that consciousness is fundamental, relational, and potentially cosmic in scope.
Against the background of a long period of intellectual disenchantment—one that rendered nature mute, inert, and mindless—the Mind-at-Large Project seeks to recover and re-imagine participatory modes of knowing. It invites dialogue across disciplines and traditions that take seriously the idea that mind may be woven into the fabric of the universe itself.
The first gathering, “A New Dawn,” inaugurates this unfolding inquiry and will be held fully online from April 15–17, 2026, hosted by the Center for Process Studies. Designed to be globally accessible, the conference will convene leading thinkers and emerging scholars from around the world for two and a half days of shared inquiry into the deeper nature of mind—from the subatomic to the ecological, from the human to the cosmic.
The program will feature a dynamic mix of plenary lectures, emerging perspectives, and panel discussions, fostering both depth and dialogue across disciplinary boundaries. As we enter this new horizon, we ask: Is consciousness merely an evolutionary by-product, or could it be a fundamental feature of reality itself? What new metaphysical, scientific, and ethical possibilities emerge if mind is not an illusion, but a pervasive dimension of the cosmos?
