This episode is with Bernardo Kastrup.Bernardo is an author, philosopher, and director of the Essentia Foundation. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy and another Ph.D. in computer engineering specializing in 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).In this conversation we talk about drawbacks of materialism, what is consciousness?, nature of reality, panpsychism, analytical idealism, free will, what is time?, meaning of life and death.

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 Introduction

00:01:02 Most difficult questions about the cosmos

00:02:54 Science and materialism

00:05:27 Limitations of minds

00:07:36 How well science describes the nature of reality?

00:11:43 Is consciousness an illusion?

00:16:39 Issues with materialism

00:25:24 Origin of life

00:27:56 Science of complexity

00:33:54 How to refute emergence of consciousness?

00:42:19 Psychedelic experiences

00:48:19 Consciousness under analytical idealism

00:50:33 Idealism and trans-personal experiences

00:57:16 Origin of consciousness

01:00:38 What is wetness of the water?

01:05:36 Panpsychism and Solipsism

01:17:58 Consciousness in other species

01:24:31 Will artificial life be conscious?

01:29:10 What is death?

01:33:02 Idealism for meaning of life

01:39:46 What is time?

01:48:11 Western mind

01:53:44 Science of consciousness under idealism

02:24:14 Thank you!

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