The consciousness debate has reached an impasse. But what if both mysterians and eliminativists are missing something? What if consciousness-as-phenomenon—the sense of being a separate observer—is generated within a prior participatory awareness, and the debate itself is an instance of the trap it seeks to explain?
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On 29th June 2025, in the grounds of St Giles House—where the Third Earl of Shaftesbury first questioned his tutor John Locke’s Enlightenment architecture—I conducted a funeral for human supremacy. This essay asks what grows when we bury the King and learn to garden instead.
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Something remarkable is happening in British primary schools. Across the country, schools are quietly restructuring themselves around a different understanding of children—not as objects to be managed through behaviour policies, but as subjects who need to feel safe before they can learn. The revolution is quiet. But it is real.
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