The Resurrection of the Self

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In god, how they can be two people at the same time is me but any case. And by the way, i also argue that youo christians, and in those who believe in a religious after life, heaven, they have the same problem, the resurrection of the self. You know, adding a soul to it doesn't really solve any mystery. Is just another mystery.

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.