> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.withrealityinmind.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # As part of Universal Consciousness, can you really change the world? - URL: https://www.withrealityinmind.com/agency/ - Published: 2026-08-11T21:57:43.000Z - Updated: 2026-09-18T13:34:21.000Z - Description: Recording with Bernardo, 11th Aug 2026 | Perception, Agency and if God can have a point of view - Author: Amir Giles - Tags: recording Recording details Date: 11 August 2026 Topic: Perception, Agency and if God can have a point of view Original recording: https://www.withrealityinmind.com/agency/ Free preview Title: Can changing perception change the world? Duration: 12:42 https://vimeo.com/1228064087/118891d47a Chapters 0:00:00 Welcome and questions carried forward 0:02:01 Your head is in mind, not mind in your head 0:04:31 Does God need to perceive the world? 0:06:51 Why **experience is more than perception** 0:15:17 Universal consciousness knows the world through us 0:21:05 Can we know reality from the inside? 0:25:21 If being means being perceived, who perceives God? 0:30:22 **Mind at Large** and universal consciousness: the crucial distinction 0:37:00 Can God have a point of view? 0:43:25 Whose experience becomes the world we see? 0:50:03 What remains of the moon when nobody looks? 0:57:57 Can changing perception change the world? 1:07:05 How imagination becomes a building 1:27:09 Should we use our creativity to reshape the world? 1:30:29 Humanity as nature’s greatest gamble 1:34:57 Why **Bernardo backs AI despite the danger** 1:41:16 Are we **spies for God**? 1:48:24 Could **seeing without eyes** break analytic idealism? 1:50:41 The intuition Bernardo left outside analytic idealism 1:59:58 Why a philosophy needs seeds of doubt 2:05:02 Your inner journey can go **beyond public philosophy** 2:09:47 Closing reflections and the next meeting If you have ever struggled to understand how individual agency relates to universal consciousness, this session offers an unusually clear and lively way into the question. As a follow up to last week's session on [objective vs subjective idealism](https://www.withrealityinmind.com/shared-world-or-private-dream/), Bernardo explores whether God (or universal consciousness) can meaningfully be said to have a point of view. We clarify the distinction between universal consciousness and Mind at Large, ask how perception and agency work through the “dashboard”, and consider whether living beings might serve as “spies for God”, allowing nature to see itself from a new perspective. The conversation concludes by reflecting on seeing without eyes and the limits of Analytic Idealism. Topics discussed include: - Berkeley’s God vs universal consciousness and mind at large - Whether God can have a point of view - The dashboard metaphor, perception and human agency - Seeing without eyes, co-creation and the limits of Analytic Idealism Until next week! Amir Speakers ![CTA Image](https://storage.ghost.io/c/c5/20/c520bbe6-927b-460d-bf38-d4f48d5dc338/content/images/2026/09/Bernardo-Kastrup-profile.jpg) Bernardo Kastrup Bernardo Kastrup is the Executive Director of Essentia Foundation and Founder/CEO at AI systems company Euclyd BV. His work has set off the modern renaissance of metaphysical idealism. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy (ontology, philosophy of mind) and another in computer engineering (reconfigurable computing, artificial intelligence). As a scientist, he has worked for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the Philips Research Laboratories (where the ‘Casimir Effect’ of Quantum Field Theory was discovered). He has also been creatively active in the high-tech industry for almost 30 years, having founded parallel processor company Silicon Hive (acquired by Intel in 2011) and worked as a technology strategist for the geopolitically significant company ASML. Most recently, he has founded AI company Euclyd BV. Formulated in detail in many academic papers and books, his ideas have been featured in *Scientific American*, the magazine of *The Institute of Art and Ideas*, the *Blog of the American Philosophical Association* and *Big Think*, among others. His most defining book is *Analytic Idealism in a Nutshell: A straightforward summary of the 21st-century’s only plausible metaphysics.* [Explore Bernardo’s work →](https://www.bernardokastrup.com/?ref=withrealityinmind.com)