Metaphysically Speaking, These Geyser Are Materialist Monists

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Ibens says there are two definitions of self. There's your memory self, or mem self, and then there's point of view self, or po v self. For me, if instead of i waiting till you die, and legally, for cryonics, you actually have to be dead. And the crionic is a form of burial. But we are stuck on this tives of personal selves and religious impulse doesn't spare anyone. So we turn into technology in which we promise ourselves immortality by preserving our memories as though they were still alive. Its an idealist religion called singulatarianism. It's where everything arises and vanishes at the same time. Cor subject

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.