The state of fine-tuning debates has overlooked non-theistic personal explanations. Some underexplored accounts appeal to resources in the philosophy of mind, such as a consciousness-first ontology, like panpsychism. Philip Goff defends such a hypothesis (agentive cosmopsychism): anthropic fine- uning is best explained by a conscious universe capable of fine- tuning itself. Drawing from Franz Brentano’s neglected teleological argument, I argue that agentive cosmopsychism, although helpful in moving the fine-tuning debates forward, fails insofar as it cannot explain what I call fundamental fine-tuning: the precise ontological features necessary for the act of fine-tuning. In conclusion, I explain how fundamental fine-tuning impacts teleological arguments in general by positively altering the prior probability of teleology on theism
