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Bernardo Kastrup

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Denyse O'Leary
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August 23, 2021
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Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Mind, Philosophy
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At Mind Matters News: Quantum physicist shows how consciousness may create reality

Denyse O'Leary
August 23, 2021
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Mind, Philosophy
In his argument against physicalism (physical nature is all there is), Tim Andersen draws from the 19th-century philosopher Schopenhauer the concept of Will as the basis of all reality. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 20, 2020
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Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism
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Does a cosmopsychist believe in life after death?

Denyse O'Leary
September 20, 2020
Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism
Bernardo Kastrup: I certainly believe in consciousness after death. I believe that our core subjectivity, that implicit, innate sense of “I”-ness, remains undifferentiated. That’s the reason you still think you are the same person you were when you were five years old even though everything about you has changed. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 6, 2020
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Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Mind
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A cosmopsychist talks about the universe, God, and free will

Denyse O'Leary
September 6, 2020
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Mind
Bernardo Kastrup: Well, there certainly is something out there that is independent of all of us as individual minds, and which seems to hold the state of the world when nobody is looking at the world. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 20, 2020
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Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism
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A Universal Mind is a reasonable idea, says Bernardo Kastrup

Denyse O'Leary
August 20, 2020
Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism
One reason that science media are respectful of cosmopsychism may be growing awareness of the problems with strict materialism, naturalism, or physicalism: As Michael Egnor has noted, “How can you have a proposition that the mind doesn’t exist? That means propositions don’t exist and that means that you don’t have a proposition.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 13, 2020
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Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Mind
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Michael Egnor and Bernardo Kastrup: Why consciousness couldn’t just evolve from the mud

Denyse O'Leary
August 13, 2020
Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Mind
Kastrup, a philosopher and computer scientist, does not accept a Darwinian account of the evolution of consciousness and is is also sympathetic to the basic intuitions behind the idea that there is design in nature (intelligent design theory). Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 10, 2020
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Human evolution, Intelligent Design, Mind
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The deplorable word has been spoken: Consciousness cannot have evolved

Denyse O'Leary
February 10, 2020
Human evolution, Intelligent Design, Mind
Wow. This will be interesting to watch. Remember when AI pioneer David Gelernter bid Darwin goodbye? So far as we know, nothing bad happened to Gelernter. If nothing awful happens to Kastrup, we might have more reasonable discussions in the future of what consciousness even is. Read More ›