I once corresponded with Greg Stone
(https://www.near-death.com/science/articles/dying-brain-theory.html),
who advanced a similar theory and claimed that he could detach from his
body and be present at places remote from it. I offered to fund a
research program by him (at the time I controlled a pot of Navy R&D
money) if you could remotely observe the titles of books in the shelf
above my computer. He invented a lot of reasons why it wouldn't be
useful to do this.
Brent
On 5/3/2019 7:23 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 1 May 2019, at 18:15, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
<[email protected]
<mailto:[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] 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
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