Brain Activity Equals Conscious Experience

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Idea that the brain creates consciousness has vastly more evidence for it than the hypothesis that consciousness creates brain. Brain scans alone, narro scientists have even been able to reconstruct on a computer screen what someone has seen. No one brain can actually put all this together. So we need the social process of science to arrive at something close to objective knowledge,. Awhat jonathan rouch calls the constitution of manach aand i very much endorse that.

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.