Is Twitter the Best Platform for Expressing Scepticism?

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Bernardo says he knows Sam is an easy target because of his prominence. He also thinks social meeting isn't the best platform for expressing scepticism. Bernardo has published now ten books, with a new one coming out in august. His main focus right now is to create momentum about this old line of thinking on human life.

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.