I will add, whether testable or not testable (yet) I ask, (my stubborn ignorance free of charge! How can this make life better? Subjective, I know!
-----Original Message----- From: 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List <[email protected]> To: everything-list <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, May 1, 2019 12:15 pm Subject: Re: Bernardo Kastrup: "Analytic Idealism: A consciousness-only ontology" But does Kastrup's TOE yield any testable predictions? Brent On 5/1/2019 12:28 AM, [email protected] wrote: Not my view of course, but here is Analytic Idealism: A consciousness-only ontology Bernardo Kastrup Dissertation, Radboud University Nijmegen (2019) https://philpapers.org/rec/KASAIA-3 pdf: https://philpapers.org/archive/KASAIA-3.pdf Abstract This thesis articulates an analytic version of the ontology of idealism, according to which universal phenomenal consciousness is all there ultimately is, everything else in nature being reducible to patterns of excitation of this consciousness. The thesis’ key challenge is to explain how the seemingly distinct conscious inner lives of different subjects—such as you and me—can arise within this fundamentally unitary phenomenal field. Along the way, a variety of other challenges are addressed, such as: how we can reconcile idealism with the fact that we all inhabit a common external world; why this world unfolds independently of our personal volition or imagination; why there are such tight correlations between measured patterns of brain activity and reports of experience; etc. The core idea of this thesis can be summarized thus: we, as well as all other living organisms, are dissociated alters of universal phenomenal consciousness, analogously to how a person with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) manifests multiple disjoint centers of subjectivity also called ‘alters.’ We, and all other living organisms, are surrounded by the transpersonal phenomenal activity of universal consciousness, which unfolds beyond the dissociative boundary of our respective alter. The inanimate world we perceive around us is the extrinsic appearance—i.e. the phenomenal image imprinted from across our dissociative boundary—of this activity. The living organisms we share the world with are the extrinsic appearances of other alters. Keywords idealism panpsychism cosmopsychism dissociation altered states of consciousness mind-body problem consciousness hard problem of consciousness subject combination problem The (1hr) thesis defense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcMOape0PY8 - @philipthrift -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
