Join our giving circle for $1/month: https://quantumgravityresearch.givingcircles.io Is reality made of information or merely described by information? Klee Irwin, director of Quantum Gravity Research, a group of theoretical physicists working on a unified first-principles quantum gravity theory, discusses ideas relating to the foundations of reality being a code–a geometric language […]
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 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 this Part VI of the Analytic Idealism Course, we discuss the important distinction between phenomenal consciousness and meta-consciousness, arguing that the so-called ‘unconscious’ reflects merely a lack of the latter, not the former. Link to PART VII: https://youtu.be/mwt7qF40KF0 Link to PART V: https://youtu.be/B4RsXr02M0U Relevant literature: https://ejop.psychopen.eu/index.php/ejop/article/view/1388 https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/consciousness-goes-deeper-than-you-think/ Papers directly […]
In this Part VII of the Analytic Idealism Course, Bernardo explicitly addresses and responds to the main objections often raised against Analytic Idealism. This is also the closing part of the course, so Bernardo leaves you with some personal reflections about the implications and relevance of Analytic Idealism to life. […]
In his opening presentation of the ‘Science of Consciousness’ conference 2021, Essentia Foundation’s executive director Bernardo Kastrup reviews the neuroscientific evidence and discusses what it actually tells about consciousness. He also discusses, in explicit and specific detail, what he perceives as widespread physicalist confirmation bias in both academia and mainstream […]
In the third presentation of the ‘Science of Consciousness’ conference 2021, Prof. dr. Heleen Slagter, Principal Investigator of the Cognition & Plasticity Laboratory of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, talks about the predictive mind: the ability of our cognitive systems to not only perceive the world, but also infer what the […]
In the second presentation of the ‘Science of Consciousness’ conference 2021, Prof. dr. Henk Barendregt brings the rigor of mathematical logic to our understanding of consciousness and its various states and manifestations. For good measure, he also discusses Vipassana meditation within this formal context. More information: https://www.essentiafoundation.org The ‘Science of […]
In the fourth presentation of the ‘Science of Consciousness’ conference 2021, Dr. Steve Taylor introduces the ontology of panspiritism, according to which ‘spirit,’ a form of consciousness that pervades and infuses all nature, becomes canalized into individual conscious beings. More information: https://www.essentiafoundation.org The ‘Science of consciousness’ conference, 2021: https://www.essentiafoundation.org/debating/announcing-the-science-of-consciousness-online-conference-2021/ Copyright […]
Essentia Foundation’s Natalia Vorontsova interviews psychiatrist and author Dr. Iain McGilchrist about his new work, “The Matter with Things,” and the role of consciousness in nature. Unmissable! Part 2: https://youtu.be/sk0Hh-N40Kc Copyright © 2022 by Essentia Foundation. All rights reserved. https://www.essentiafoundation.org
