Analytic Idealism and the "Problem" of Identity

Analytic Idealism is one of my favorite structural forms of metaphysics out there today. It poses itself as a sort of scientifically informed platonic idealism, where the fundamental nature of reality is mental, not that it is in our mind, but that it itself is a mind. I'll attach a video as a nice introduction!

As usual, I'm interested in what viewing life this way means for us and our identity, and ultimately what that means about how we choose to be (if we choose anything at all) and how that might change our experience. I want to explore how it might feel to see the universe as a mind we are all a part of. I'd also like to talk about the ways this viewpoint echoes spiritual schools of thought like Taoism and Hermeticism, finding examples of our modern science circling back to the general intuitions that humans have had all along.

Hope to see you there!

A basic overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-rXm7Uk9Ys

A long but FASCINATING interview if you find yourself hungry for more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrMEL20o5KE