> On 1 May 2019, at 18:15, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List > <[email protected]> wrote: > > But does Kastrup's TOE yield any testable predictions?
Good question. Or does it at least lead to any retrodictions, based on less hypothesis (simpler)? Bruno > > Brent > > On 5/1/2019 12:28 AM, [email protected] <mailto:[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 <https://philpapers.org/rec/KASAIA-3> >> pdf: https://philpapers.org/archive/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 >> <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] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list >> <https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >> <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] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list > <https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <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.
