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Bernardo Kastrup: Are We Dissociated Alters Of A Universal Mind? Understanding Analytic Idealism

Mind-Body Solution

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The Plausibility of Physicalism

Don't think for a moment that because physicalism is mainstream, that this and of itself makes it extraordinarily plausible. We have absolutely no reason to think that miracle upon miracle right now, for the first time, it will be right. The plausibility of physicalism is a cultural artifact. It has been manufactured by people who are born and are told that physicalism is true from their school teachers, their parents, their family doctors, and the eight o'clock news anchor. And they think, I don't need to think about these metaphysical questions because all these people who were alive before I was even born, they already did the thinking for me. In that sense, it's attractive like

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