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Björn Wikström

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Shared Mind Theory (SMT): Canonical Formulation

PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation) January 8, 2026 Björn Wikström

Shared Mind Theory (SMT) is a unified theory of consciousness holding that consciousness is fundamentally relational and field-like rather than individually localized. Individual minds arise as nodal perspectives within a shared conscious field and are experientially realized through perspectival interfaces. SMT rejects the assumption that the individual subject is the ontologically primitive...

The Implications of Shared Mind Theory (SMT)

PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation) January 8, 2026 Björn Wikström

Shared Mind Theory (SMT) holds that consciousness is fundamentally relational and field-like rather than individually localized. Individual minds arise as nodal perspectives within a shared conscious field, dynamically coordinated through interaction rather than ontologically isolated. Subjectivity is therefore not private by default, but emerges from participation in a distributed structure of...