Presentation by physicist Dr. Markus Müller during Essentia Foundation’s 2020 online work conference. Dr. Müller is Group Leader at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information in Vienna, Austria, and a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the Perimeter Institute for […]
Presentation by neuroscientist Prof. Edward F. Kelly during Essentia Foundation’s 2020 online work conference. Edward F. Kelly is currently a Professor in the Division of Perceptual Studies (DOPS), a research unit housed administratively within the Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia. He received his Ph.D. […]
Presentation by neurologist Prof. Hyman M. Schipper during Essentia Foundation’s 2020 online work conference. Dr. Schipper is a professor of neurology and medicine (Geriatrics) at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, a clinical neurologist at Montreal’s Jewish General Hospital and the director of a neuroscience laboratory in the hospital’s affiliated Lady […]
Presentation by cosmologist Prof. Bernard Carr during Essentia Foundation’s 2020 online work conference. Bernard Carr discusses physics and how it can accommodate mental phenomena. Subscribe to the channel: https://bit.ly/EssentiaYT 00:00 Donald Hoffman introduction 01:10 Making space and time 03:30 Role of consciousness 04:52 Final theory 11:20 Modified model of reality […]
In part 1 of Essentia Foundation’s Analytic Idealism Course, we investigate the incoherence of our ordinary intuitions. We will discuss whether our ordinary intuitions about reality can be true at all and how we relate to the world. Subscribe to the channel: https://bit.ly/EssentiaYT 00:00 Analytic idealism introduction 03:02 Ordinary intuitions […]
In part 2 of Essentia Foundation’s Analytic Idealism Course, we discuss why mainstream physicalism fails on all key post-enlightenment values, such as coherence, internal consistency, parsimony and empirical adequacy. Subscribe to the channel: https://bit.ly/EssentiaYT 00:00 Recap part 1 04:28 Mainstream physicalism 16:50 Territory out of map 19:15 Physicalism in a […]
In this closing presentation of the ‘Science of Consciousness’ conference 2021, organized by the Sentience and Science Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Study of the University of Amsterdam and Essentia Foundation, renowned psychiatrist Dr. Iain McGilchrist sets out his views on consciousness and the nature of reality at large. Unsurprisingly […]
In part 3 of Essentia Foundation’s Analytic Idealism Course, we investigate the insoluble problems of constitutive panpsychism, a fashionable metaphysics that postulates consciousness to be a fundamental property of matter. Subscribe to the channel: https://bit.ly/EssentiaYT 00:00 Recap part 2 02:38 Constitutive panpsychism 11:36 First problem of panpsychism 17:13 Second problem […]
In part 4 of the Analytic Idealism Course, we go in depth into Analytic Idealism itself, discussing how it makes sense of reality without requiring anything other than nature’s sole given: experience. Subscribe to the channel: https://bit.ly/EssentiaYT 00:00:00 Recap part 3 00:03:22 Outside world 00:15:40 Incontrovertible observations 00:26:53 Universality of […]
In part 5 of the Analytic Idealism Course, we review empirical evidence from the fields of foundations of physics and neuroscience of consciousness, which suggest the validity of analytic idealism. Subscribe to the channel: https://bit.ly/EssentiaYT 00:00 Recap part 4 01:33 Foundations of physics 05:20 Short film 08:10 Soccer game metaphor […]
