Does the brain produce the mind? Or is the relationship between the two something altogether different? We explore the latest science about reality and it’s experience in this short film. Subscribe to the channel: https://bit.ly/EssentiaYT Did you enjoy this video? Be sure to give it a like! Do you want […]
Is what we see, what we get? Are the seemingly material objects around us what the world actually is? Or are our perceptions merely providing us with a coded representation of a deeper, mysterious reality? Subscribe to the channel: https://bit.ly/EssentiaYT Did you enjoy this video? Be sure to give it […]
Does the matter that surrounds us have a standalone reality, irrespective of observation? Or is matter merely the thin, superficial appearance of a deeper, mysterious reality? Subscribe to the channel: https://bit.ly/EssentiaYT Did you enjoy this video? Be sure to give it a like! Do you want to support our cause? […]
Presentation by neuroscientist Prof. Donald Hoffman during Essentia Foundation’s 2020 online work conference. Donald Hoffman discusses conscious realism and how it relates to our perception of reality. Subscribe to the channel: https://bit.ly/EssentiaYT 00:00 Donald Hoffman introduction 01:14 Conscious realism introduction 04:52 Bottom-up approach 09:28 Mystery of consciousness 12:15 Spacetime is […]
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 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 […]
