We usually think that it is free will that gives meaning to life, but what if exactly the opposite is true, that the fact that we don’t have free will makes life meaningful? A couple of weeks ago Bernardo Kastrup, the executive director of the Essentia Foundation, wrote an essay […]
Closing the first day of the 2021 ‘The Science of Consciousness’ conference, dr. Bernardo Kastrup, Prof. dr. Heleen Slagter, Dr. Steve Taylor and Prof. dr. Henk Barendregt take questions and debate. 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 © 2021 by Essentia Foundation. All rights reserved. […]
Prof. dr. Erik Verlinde, well-known for his ground-breaking theory of entropic gravity, talks about emergence in mind and nature, as well as the Platonic realm physicists tap into to describe the world. 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 © 2021 by Essentia Foundation. All rights […]
In this much anticipated 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, dr. Jacob Jolij brings advanced physics and philosophy of mind together, to discuss higher dimensions of consciousness. More […]
Essentia Foundation’s Natalia Vorontsova interviews psychiatrist and author Dr. Iain McGilchrist about his new work, “The Matter with Things,” and the nature of reality. Unmissable! Part 1: https://youtu.be/OFylqGX4n9M Copyright © 2022 by Essentia Foundation. All rights reserved. https://www.essentiafoundation.org
Closing the second day of the 2021 ‘The Science of Consciousness’ conference, dr. Jacob Jolij, dr. Esmee Gerken and Dr. Iain McGilchrist take questions and debate. 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 © 2021 by Essentia Foundation. All rights reserved. https://www.essentiafoundation.org
Read these 10 books and it will be very hard to still believe in a fundamentally physical universe. Essentia is starting its own book club on YouTube! In a series of videos, we will discuss 20th-century must reads by authors like Carl Gustav Jung, Noam Chomsky and Thomas Kuhn, to […]
Analytic Idealism is THE new worldview that can make sense of anomalous phenomena, whether it is NDE’s, altered mental states or UAP’s, whilst remaining 100% compatible with our current understanding of physics. In this video Hans Busstra discusses questions from viewers of our channel with Bernardo Kastrup (director of the […]
