(2020-11-02, 09:46 PM)Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: Part 1... Quote:Part 2 - Why the Evidence Points to Idealism
'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
Reality? It's All in the Mind. An interview with Bernardo Kastrup
Greg Moffitt Quote:“What helps now is the amount of data on dissociation we’ve amassed with modern neuro-imaging techniques. This allows us to dress these old ideas with modern, empirically grounded language that people can relate to, with less of a spiritual sound for those prejudiced against spirituality. The phenomenon of dissociation, dissociative identity disorder, is well known in psychiatry today. There are people who manifest what they call dissociated alters, multiple centres of consciousness within a single personal psyche. In the old days, it used to be called multiple personality disorder. There’s also plenty of evidence that the different alters or the different dissociated personalities of a person suffering from this condition can be simultaneously conscious or co-conscious. They can even fight with each other for control of the body. Although for a long time extreme forms of dissociation have been called into question, whether the patient might be confabulating or telling stories in order to evoke pity and get attention, today we know that’s not the case because of modern neuro-imaging. We now have objective evidence for the reality of extreme forms of dissociation and we know that different dissociative processes can be identified. There’s something these dissociative processes look like under a brain scanner. The idea I’m putting forward, and of course it’s much more thoroughly elaborated upon in the book than we can do in a brief interview, is that each living being is itself a dissociated alter, a dissociated personality so to say, of universal consciousness. In the same way that our conscious inner life appears to other people in the form of our body, our brain, and brain activity that can be measured, in the same way that this conscious inner life appears to others in the form of a physical construct that we call the biological body, the conscious inner life of the inanimate universe as a whole presents itself to us in the form of what we call the inanimate universe, that physical construct with stars and galaxies and galaxy clusters and so on that we describe as the physical universe. Studies and simulations have shown that, at its largest scales, the universe in fact does look like a nervous system. Its pattern of interconnections and distribution of mass, including dark matter and dark energy, interconnect, they are mathematically very similar to the way our neurons and synapses organise and arrange themselves in a biological brain, which again suggests, and that’s a key thesis in the book, that what we call ‘matter’ is nothing more than what conscious inner life looks like from across a dissociative boundary. My conscious inner life looks like my body, with its brain and its nervous system when observed from across my dissociative boundary. In other words, from the point of view of other people looking at me. And the inanimate universe looks like what we call ‘the physical universe’ when observed from my perspective, which is also across a dissociative boundary, my dissociative boundary. That’s all there is to matter. That’s all that matter is. It is the appearance of experiential inner life presenting itself across a dissociative boundary.”
'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
Schopenhauer’s sense of self: Can our core subjectivity survive bodily death?
Kastrup Quote:...Schopenhauer describes core-subjectivity as ‘that one eye of the world which looks out from all knowing creatures’ (emphasis added), the ‘eternal world-eye’. If you and I were to become completely amnesic while lying in an ideal sensory deprivation chamber, for at least a moment all that would be left in both our conscious inner lives would be this core-subjectivity, this undifferentiated but felt I-ness, identical in both you and me.
'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 
This part seems rather poorly elucidated:
Quote:On the other hand, when referring to a person’s mode of existence as a differentiated individual, the pronoun ‘I’ denotes a particular set of experiential contents given to the universal recipient. This latter ‘I’ disappears upon death, in a way analogous to how a dream avatar vanishes when we wake up, or to how the dissociated personalities of someone suffering from dissociative identity disorder become re-integrated into the host personality upon a cure. Schopenhauer’s ambivalence regarding the pronoun ‘I’ is thus far from an expression of confusion.One the one hand, it is stating that something disappears. On the other, it is compared with the re-integration of multiple personalities. The latter being far from a disappearance, but in fact an enrichment of the whole by the retaining of all of the composite ingredients, not a disappearance at all. Methinks the writer is confused.
Quote:This is a Short Film about Consciousness. The narration is extracted from the Indian Genes Podcast (2 part ) where Bernardo throw's light on the aspect of a Universal Consciousness. You do not want to miss those two episodes, if this is a subject that interests you or even if you are just curious and want to know more.
'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 
Kastrup vs Blackmore and Tim Crane debate:
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The rest of their debate can be found here: https://iai.tv/video/the-miracle-of-mind...=endscreen
Quote:Bernardo Kastrup's work has been leading the modern renaissance of metaphysical idealism, the notion that reality is essentially mental.
'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.'
(This post was last modified: 2021-02-02, 02:03 AM by Sciborg_S_Patel.)
- Bertrand Russell
Decoding Jung's Metaphysics: Prelude
Today my new book, Decoding Jung's Metaphysics, is being published. To celebrate the occasion, I am reproducing below Chapter 1, 'Prelude,' of that work. Enjoy!
'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.'
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- Bertrand Russell 
This is one long interview, but it’s a good one.
Oh my God, I hate all this.
Another BK interview, this time the guest is Donald Hoffman, another at the coal face of Consciousness research. The topic is Competition, which may not sound too relevant...
Oh my God, I hate all this.
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