Bernardo Kastrup: Are We Dissociated Alters Of A Universal Mind? Understanding Analytic Idealism
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The Limits of Analytic Idealism
There are many things about analytic idealism that are sort of best guesses guided by reason and evidence. The world cannot be what it seems in the sense that it cannot have those shapes and forms and events we discern on the screen of perception. Unbound internal entropy is not compatible with life. We would become soup, literally.
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Bernardo Kastrup is 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). As a scientist, Bernardo has worked for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the Philips Research Laboratories (where the 'Casimir Effect' of Quantum Field Theory was discovered).
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- Bernardo's Website: https://www.bernardokastrup.com/
- Bernardo's YouTube: https://youtube.com/@bernardokastrup
- Full Course on Analytic Idealism: https://tinyurl.com/4djccxap
TIMESTAMPS:
(0:00) - Introduction
(2:25) - Chapter I - We investigate whether our ordinary intuitions about the nature of reality and the world at large can be true at all.
(18:11) - Chapter II - We discuss why mainstream physicalism fails on all key post-enlightenment values.
(39:57) - Chapter III - We investigate the insoluble problems of constitutive panpsychism, a fashionable metaphysics that postulates consciousness to be a fundamental property of matter.
(1:26:22) - Chapter IV - We go in depth into Analytic Idealism itself, discussing how it makes sense of reality without requiring anything other than nature’s sole given: experience.
(1:38:00) - Chapter V - We review empirical evidence from the fields of foundations of physics and neuroscience of consciousness, which seems to suggest the validity of analytic idealism
(1:57:55) - Chapter VI - We discuss the important distinction between phenomenal consciousness and meta-consciousness, arguing that the so-called ‘unconscious’ reflects merely a lack of the latter, not the former.
(2:08:20) - Chapter VII - We respond to the main objections raised against Analytic Idealism. This is the closing part of the course, so Bernardo leaves you with some personal reflections about Idealism and life.
(2:26:42) - Conclusion
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