Bernardo Kastrup on Universal Mind, Artificial Sentience, the Great Void, and the Universe's Telos

Bernardo Kastrup is a metaphysical idealist, arguing that universal phenomenal consciousness is all there ultimately is. He holds a Ph.D. in computer engineering and another in philosophy. Bernardo is also the executive director of the Essentia Foundation.

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 Timestamps:

0:00 Intro
2:42 Bernardo’s metaphysics 
4:15 What does it mean for something to be a transpersonal mental process
10:11 What is it like to be nature at large?
12:20 Is the consciousness that underlies the inanimate universe like dust or completely unified? 
16:55 How is it that mind at large fragments into particular beings?
22:40 How can we remember our original state if it's formless/contentless? 
28:39 What is it like to be the field when it’s completely at rest? 
32:17 Is there formless or contentless consciousness? 
39:25 The great void state
43:13 Being and seeing god 
45:40 Knowledge without intermediation of a mental model 
48:03 The role and place of introspection 
52:38 Physicalism robs us of meaning as the entities outside of us are their own ends 
56:58 Is there a necessary relationship between truth and freedom from suffering 
59:28 What it means to be set free 
1:08:50 There is freedom is seeing what you think you are doesn’t exist 
1:10:22 Surrender and defeat 
1:19:16 Embracing duality and the western background 
1:35:40 The importance of suffering 
1:47:05 The maturation of religion
1:52:45 A spontaneous unfolding can still follow a telos
1:56:50 The telos of universal mind
2:01:43 Innocence, evil, and the asymmetry between truth and illusion
2:12:06 The spirit of our technology and artificial consciousness 
2:20:05 The binding problem of consciousness and substrate independence 
2:50:30 Testing for consciousness in machines 
3:07:35 AGI timelines 
3:11:07 Imbuing machines with values 
3:08:10 Clarifying intuition pumps for idealism
3:18:45 Outro