Celebrating Bernardo's upcoming book 'Idealism in a nutshell' we're releasing these two lectures, originally filmed 22nd June 2020 as part of a four week course.

Lecture 1: Refuting Materialism can be found here:    • Bernardo Kastrup | Refuting Materiali...  

Our next discussion series with Bernardo starts 29th Oct and features as guest the celebrated neuroscientist Christof Koch: https://dandelion.events/e/y54ag

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Bernardo Kastrup's work has been leading the modern renaissance of the philosophical position, ‘metaphysical idealism’ that reality is essentially mental, an appearance in ‘mind.’ Bernardo has a Ph.D. in philosophy (ontology, philosophy of mind) and another Ph.D. in computer engineering (reconfigurable computing, 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). Formulated in detail in many academic papers and books, his ideas have been featured on Scientific American, the Institute of Art and Ideas, the Blog of the American Philosophical Association and Big Think, among others. Bernardo's most recent book is The Idea of the World: A multi-disciplinary argument for the mental nature of reality. For more information, freely downloadable papers, videos, etc., please visit www.bernardokastrup.com.

0:00 Introduction
3:30 reasons why objective reality outside consciousness seem intuitive: 1. Neural correlates of experience, 2 seemingly consistent objective reality 3. The world doesn't respond to our wishes
7:50 how to overcome these prejudices
10:30 what is undeniably observable as a starting point
13:20 what is the most parsimonious explanation
17:00 Intrinsic vrs extrinsic experience
20:00 Brain function is the extrinsic experience of intrinsic experience
24:28 Intrinsic experiences are reflected back to us as extrinsic experiences
27:30 Information is just a description of richness of states, and does not exist in and of itself
30:30 In idealism phenomenology & ontology are closely related
31:20 All matter is the extrinsic experience of inner life, and mass, charge, spin are merely descriptions of this extrinsic experience.
36:40 Consciousness is not at rest in deep sleep
41:00 Does a TV, a sun or blackhole have inner life?
47:30 The subconscious is mislabeled concept - its only the lack of explicit meta-cognition.
48:00 This is a high match with Near Death Experiences
49:20 Blindsight is a break in meta-cognition (back and forth between experience and self-reporting of the experience.
51:20 The matter of the brain implies that all matter is extrinsic appearance of universal inner life.
53:30 There are no separate objects in the universe - all separation is arbitrary, nominal.
58:00 The universe as a whole is an appearance of an inner experience
60:00 Why does the universe configure itself this way? Why is there suffering?
1:06:00 might universal consciousness dream?
It doesn't have different perspectives, only a wholistic view
1:11:20 AI is not conscious
1:12:20 the universe has no plan
1:14:00 metacognition is the recognition of your own experience
1:15:20 are all living being (plants etc) conscious?
1:16:00 how do the two preservatives (intrinsic and extrinsic) emerge? Dissociation
1:23:00 compartmentalisation is a form of dissociation and shows how we impinge on each others experience, which we call perception
1:30:00 the body is the appearance of dissociation, the world an appearance of mind at large ( universal consciousness not part of alters)
1:36:11 Gods, aliens, angels and split personalities... can there be dissociations within dissociations?