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Mind the Fields (a companion to Mind the Gaps)
Mind the Fields offers a bridge between the embattled camps of empirical and experiential knowing; of science and noetics (here meaning inward, intuitive or participatory knowing); of Newtonian and Quantum; of rational and a-rational; of the Old Order and the New Age.
It respects the discipline of evidence and the need for intellectual rigour, while refusing to dismiss intuition, embodiment, folklore and the strangeness of experience. Rather than choosing between a flat, mechanistic worldview and a woolly spiritual one, it asks whether consciousness, creativity and perception may belong to a deeper field of reality that both science and more intuitive traditions glimpse from different sides. Phil Smith’s argument is not that 'anything goes', but that our current habits of explanation are too narrow to account for the full texture of lived reality. By treating intuition as a serious mode of engagement rather than a soft indulgence, the book suggests a way in which scepticism and receptivity, evidence and imagination, can be held in the same frame. A companion to Mind the Gaps, this essay addresses the problem of consciousness in terms that we can all understand. Mind the Fields draws on William Kingdon Clifford’s forgotten idea of 'mind-stuff', which proposes that mind may not be produced by matter so much as embedded in it, and that human beings may be expressions of a more distributed, field-like reality.
The book moves through quantum thinking, folklore, dreams, embodiment and our experience of genius loci, to ask whether intuition is not a vague superstition but a real mode of access to the world. It is a call to recover an a-rational, attentive and imaginative relationship to reality — not in opposition to science, but alongside it, where science reaches its limits and other forms of insight begin. Readership:For readers who want a serious but imaginative inquiry into consciousness, intuition, and the limits of modern thought, Mind the Fields offers a fresh way of thinking about what science can explain — and what it cannot.
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