Is Your Autobiography a Waste of Time?

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Sally Kohn: The brain is making up a story to explain, you know what? Why it's doing what it's doing. Even our own sense of self is dis defended and protected through this creative narrative making,. We will always ga him upn o, i think of a moment. O, distory at will come up with a story. A autobiography is just almost a complete waste of time because you have no idea why you did wut you. And so that made me remember, i wrote about this guy and my book, the believing brain chicked arpinos. He wouldn't tell me the exact words, but he wouldn't say they were loved or there was

In this expansive conversation, Michael Shermer speaks with Bernardo Kastrup, the executive director of Essentia Foundation. His work has been leading the modern renaissance of metaphysical idealism, the notion that reality is essentially mental. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy (ontology, philosophy of mind) and another Ph.D. in computer engineering (reconfigurable computing, artificial intelligence). Shermer and Kastrup discuss: materialism, idealism, dualism, monism, panpsychism, free will, determinism, consciousness, the problem of other minds, artificial intelligence, out of body and near-death experiences, model dependent realism, and the ultimate nature of reality.