The point is suffering, not to get to some higher goal? Ye y, it's ded e e. The myth of a cesipis right? Yo, roll the rock up hill, and you let the rock down. That's nihilism. When you think that you are suffering for nothing, that's worse than suffering. All right, bernardo, we'll now well pass two hours. This was one of the more interesting conversations i've had. You're a superinteresting guy. Thanks for coming on.
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.