(2023-10-11, 07:58 PM)LotusFlower Wrote: Just read Merle’s “Adventures in Psienceland” post and to me it shows a lot how materialist “science” has such as a grip on our culture. Very interesting reflecting back on this thread as a new member.
I think we’d all do better with a little more Bernardo Kastrup and less info from Keith Augustine (who’s been refuted too many times to count)
As much as I've enjoyed my interactions with him, Kastrup's Idealism seems indistinguishable from Materialism some days....
'Historically, we may regard materialism as a system of dogma set up to combat orthodox dogma...Accordingly we find that, as ancient orthodoxies disintegrate, materialism more and more gives way to scepticism.'
- Bertrand Russell
- Bertrand Russell