There Is A World Out There, But It Is Mental - Bernardo Kastrup - 5/31/23

[innerlight]

This man is a gift for western culture!

[davedeputyZX]

If you're Irish or British, the phrase "the world is mental" has a different meaning. Every day i look at the news and think "jaysus, the world is mental" 😄

[JessyGreene]

Thank you for this interview! I love Bernardo Kastrup ❤

[rkrishad]

BK is a blessing. Listening to him, I cannot but help think of Rabindranath Tagore’s poem, a snippet of the poem here
“ Where the clear stream off reason
has not lost its way into the
dreary desert sand of dead habit; Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever widening
thought and action
into that heaven of freedom,
my father,
let my county awake”
- Rabindranath Tagore

[michaeldillon]

Kastrup's Idealism =Advaita Vedanta ( more or less ) and through consciousness puts humanity back at the fentre of the universe ✌️🕉️

[leandrosilvagoncalves]

Thank you for posting! Whatever metaphysics we adopt, physicalism is more than proven not to be able to explain reality consistently.

[kkandthegirls]

Bernardo is a visionary. His explanation of consciousness is the only one that is self consistent, unambiguous and effective. It's difficult to adjust one's mindset in order to take it in, but once you do, it's a simple and natural explanation. Thank you for this présentation.

[nickidaisydandelion]

That is very much congruent with David Bohm and Jiddu Krishnamurti.

[Itsonlymakebelieve]

As a fluent English speaker with a decent understanding of ‘big’ words, keeping track of Bernardo’s explanations can be quite daunting, at times. His grasp of the English language is immense. However, I would ask him to explain some, if not all of his concepts, using plain English.

[notexactlyrocketscience]

16:30 what if there is an underlying hidden principle that pre-determines what alice could possibly see? wouldn't such a theoretically possible principle (assuming our knowledge of the world is not complete) first have to be ruled out before drawing the conclusions? but i don't know how you would rule out something that cannot be measured or seen. hard to prove the non-existence of unknown things.

[gabrigamerskyrim]

Couldn't it be argued that the deeper reality is just a sum of all its possible physical appearances?

[Daniel-uxtx]

Do the sensors on the airplane register the world as it is? If yes, do they equate to our biological sensors (5 senses)? If yes, then do our 5 senses bring the outer world into our awareness ‘as the outer world is’ like the sensors do to the dashboard dials? If yes, then is our perceptions of the world in our awareness ‘what the world is’ to our senses?

Furthermore, we made the sensors on the plane to measure the ‘world as we know it’ & the dials on the dashboard, too, to represent to our perception (the pilots) what the world is outside the plane…

I understand the limits of a metaphor, but I’m just trying to unknot the logic in this metaphor!

[real_pattern]

would love a conversation between BK & sean carroll, keith frankish, pete mandik, james ladyman, tim maudlin, james fodor...

[kdub]

can someone explain to me how many worlds theory is at odds with this? he says the only way to get out of his conclusion Is to posit many worlds, how does many worlds provide an alternative?

[bhaskarshahi]

If we can’t think and exist and speculate nothing more than 3 dimensional geometric worldview than how the language that we created from our level of intelligence can possibly gives us all the answers

[gireeshneroth]

Very true which is why I say consciousness is living a mind wake. In a mind wake consciousness interprets and perceives itself as subject and objects. There is no out there. Out there is within.

[sbcandmagnum]

To say that we misrepresent reality through our senses and perception is not to say that what is misrepresented is non-physical. Some people have a serious problem with infinity especially when they think of the universe so dismissing the existence of the physical world is convenient. There is another realm or plane or platform for existence other than physical, that is where consciousness is. Pure love and peace. Whether we somehow learn to see things in themselves or not will not matter, there still will be no scientific study of the plane of consciousness.

[michaeldillon]

Bernardo was giving evidence, both philosophical and scientific, fir udealism long befire the Nobel Prize for Physics was given in 2022 . This was a really important prize because it essentially rubber stamped idealism .
Just on principle the physicalists will reject Bernardo just like Tim Maudlin ( who seems to call everyone stupid, from Neils Bohr to Ruchard Feynman) did when he said the Nobel Prize committee were wrong to award the prize in 2022 .

[Corteum]

We can call it netal or physical. But basically it's object. What we can notice about mental and physical is that they are objects in the field of our subject. They are both known and experienced subjectively.

[CJ-cdcd]

Is anyone aware of a substantial critique of Kastrup’s analytic idealism that has been published in an academic journal (be it philosophical, psychological, etc.)? Asking as a fan of BK’s work.