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Bernardo Kastrup: Are We Dissociated Alters Of Cosmic Consciousness?

Mind-Body Solution

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The Paradox of Physicalism

The one ontological category that we absolutely know to exist because it precedes theory are the qualities of experience, qualitative stuff. Physicalism postulates another type of existence that's not qualitative at all, but can be exhaustively described in terms of quantities alone. That is only justified if you can't make sense of reality. Account for the dynamics of nature in terms of qualities alone. And physicalism conflates everything and impostulates external states outside our minds. It thinks that those external states should also be non-mental, because anything outside our minds should be non- mental. Why? Why the hell?

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