Bernardo Kastrup is 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). 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). This episodes provides an in-depth crash course on Analytic Idealism.
TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - Introduction
2:25 - Chapter I - We investigate whether our ordinary intuitions about the nature of reality and the world at large can be true.
18:11 - Chapter II - We discuss why mainstream physicalism fails on all key post-enlightenment values.
39:57 - Chapter III - We investigate the insoluble problems of constitutive panpsychism
1:26:22 - Chapter IV - We go in-depth into Analytic Idealism
1:38:00 - Chapter V - We review empirical evidence from the fields of foundations of physics and neuroscience of consciousness
1:57:55 - Chapter VI - We discuss the important distinction between phenomenal consciousness and meta-consciousness
2:08:20 - Chapter VII - We respond to the objections against Analytic Idealism. This is the closing part of the course, so Bernardo leaves you with some personal reflections about Idealism and life.
2:26:42 - Conclusion
EPISODE LINKS:
- Bernardo's Round 1: https://youtu.be/XaSIs2fp7V8?feature=shared
- Bernardo's Website: https://www.bernardokastrup.com/
- Bernardo's YouTube: https://youtube.com/@bernardokastrup
- Full Course on Analytic Idealism: https://tinyurl.com/4djccxap
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