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Bernardo Kastrup

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Bernardo Kastrup is the Executive Director of Essentia Foundation and Founder/CEO at AI systems company Euclyd BV. His work has set off the modern renaissance of metaphysical idealism. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy (ontology, philosophy of mind) and another 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). He has also been creatively active in the high-tech industry for almost 30 years, having founded parallel processor company Silicon Hive (acquired by Intel in 2011) and worked as a technology strategist for the geop ...more

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On human dignity: The difference between value and importance

It is cliché to say that we are living through a period of drastic historical change: every period reflects the perennial ebb and flow of history, nothing ever remaining static. But sometimes this change is extraordinary in both intensity and impact. And if any historical junction deserves such a characterisation, it is the one we are living through right now. For a number of never-before-seen

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	Why Materialism Is Baloney: How True Skeptics Know There is no Death and Fathom Answers to Life, the Universe and Everything 4.17 avg rating — 849 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief 4.49 avg rating — 439 ratings — published 2016 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Idea of the World 4.27 avg rating — 459 ratings — published 2019 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Decoding Jung's Metaphysics: The Archetypal Semantics of an Experiential Universe 4.49 avg rating — 418 ratings — published 2021 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Decoding Schopenhauer's Metaphysics: The Key to Understanding How It Solves the Hard Problem of Consciousness and the Paradoxes of Quantum Mechanics 4.32 avg rating — 306 ratings — published 2020 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rationalist Spirituality: An Exploration of the Meaning of Life and Existence Informed by Logic and Science 4.40 avg rating — 205 ratings — published 2011 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Meaning in Absurdity: What Bizarre Phenomena Can Tell Us about the Nature of Reality 4.33 avg rating — 204 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Brief Peeks Beyond: Critical Essays on Metaphysics, Neuroscience, Free Will, Skepticism and Culture 4.46 avg rating — 185 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Analytic Idealism in a Nutshell: A straightforward summary of the 21st century's only plausible metaphysics 4.48 avg rating — 181 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dreamed Up Reality: Diving into the Mind to Uncover the Astonishing Hidden Tale of Nature 4.52 avg rating — 113 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Indeed, it is nearly impossible for any person inserted in a modern cultural context to escape the haze of the zeitgeist and develop a truly unbiased, critical, and personal worldview.”
― Bernardo Kastrup, Why Materialism Is Baloney: How True Skeptics Know There Is No Death and Fathom Answers to life, the Universe, and Everything

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“materialism is a fantasy. It’s based on unnecessary postulates, circular reasoning and selective consideration of evidence and data. Materialism is by no stretch of the imagination a scientific conclusion, but merely a metaphysical opinion that helps some people interpret scientific conclusions.”
― Bernardo Kastrup, Brief Peeks Beyond: Critical Essays on Metaphysics, Neuroscience, Free Will, Skepticism and Culture

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“We now find our gods not on the altar, but in the bottle of alcohol, the football match on television, the new pair of shoes and the arms of the casual lover.”
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Aug 20, 2017 09:59AM

Therese wrote: "Hi Bernardo, thanks for accepting my friend request.
Just wanted to question one comment you made in response to someone else's question. It concerns the issue of facts. Are facts different from a..."

Hi Therese, could you post this on my forum? https://groups.google.com/forum/#!for...
If I start addressing philosophical issues on multiple platforms I will go crazy, so I reserve my own forum for it.
Cheers, Bernardo.

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message 1: by Therese

Aug 20, 2017 08:30AM

Hi Bernardo, thanks for accepting my friend request.
Just wanted to question one comment you made in response to someone else's question. It concerns the issue of facts. Are facts different from absolute truth? Quantum physics has ruled out our access to absolute truth. What impact does this have on the standing of 'facts'? There are contradictory facts, like light is a wave and light is a particle. I would like to agree with you that there are facts that we can use in our day to day lives. But with the observer effect, it leaves us at a loss when trying to convince one another that our facts are more true than someone else's facts.
I think that this is a fundamental quandary that is making it very difficult to find a consensus among people with very different psychological profiles. There is no way to absolutely prove facts anymore. It's what gives rise to things like climate change denial. How would you resolve this issue?

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