The Consciousness Conundrum: Idealism as the dark horse ontology, with Matt Segall

What if consciousness isn't an accident of matter, but woven into the fabric of reality itself? Matt Segall explores how idealism—long dismissed as philosophy's underdog—might actually explain the anomalies that physicalism struggles with, from UAP phenomena to the emergence of mind in a universe that should be fundamentally dead. Drawing on Whitehead's process philosophy, we venture into a framework where intelligence and awareness aren't rare curiosities but natural expressions of a cosmos fundamentally oriented toward relationship and becoming.