Reincarnation of Benardo

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It could be they're all writing about this from this kind of western materialist perspective, that the self lifts off the brain. That's still locked into that kind of western way of thinking. If your interpretation is right, maybe all these narratives need to be re interpreted in thisiw. What then, has always happened? Historically? That's what always has happened, a so called change of paradime. Like thomas coon wrote, the data is the same. You just look at the data from a different perspective. It makes a major difference.

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.