The mind is not the brain. The locus of our consciousness is in the
world. Portalism embraces radical phenomenal externalism and represents
a contemporary form of dualism that rejects materialist assumptions of
mind/brain identity. As a philosophy of mind, Portalism breaks with
traditional thinking in two significant ways: first by holding that
consciousness is in fact a fifth fundamental force of nature endowed
with behavioural attributes not unlike that of gravity, and second by
arguing how consciousness inheres in all living organisms regardless of
their biological sophistication. Portalism compels us to reject
traditional monist theories about the nature of consciousness and boldly
enter into a new way of thinking about our own reality.