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198. Bernardo Kastrup on the Nature of Reality: Materialism, Idealism, or Skepticism

The Michael Shermer Show

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Where Does My Consciousness Go?

depo's answer was, aunt milly was an impermanent pattern of behavior in the universe and returned to the potential she emerged from. In the philosophic framework of eastern traditions, ego identity is an illusion,. The goal of enlightenment is to transcend to a more universal, non local, non material identity. So memories are contents of consciousness, but they are not consciousness, if you know what i mean. For the same reason that ripples are not water, memories are not consciousness.

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