Dr. David Schmid, Dr. Lídia Del Rio and Hans Busstra explore a metaphysical shift that’s happening in the foundations of physics: the wave function is no longer regarded as something real, but just as a description of what we know about the world. In philosophical terms: the wave function is […]
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Have you ever wondered why time seems to flow relentlessly forward—and whether it could ever run backward? In this video, we dive deep into the mysteries of time, exploring how fundamental physics might allow for time’s reversibility, yet our everyday reality appears locked in a one-way stream. We’ll examine the […]
Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin had a new successful test launch of the New Shepard vehicle, setting the stage for putting humans in space by the end of the year. Also, more about SpaceX’s efforts to capture the fairings for their launches. New Shepard launch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6_RvniifL8 SpaceX article in Ars […]
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 […]
What if the sprawling cosmic web of galaxies, spanning billions of light years, shares striking similarities with the neural circuitry in our heads? In this video, we delve deep into recent research showing that the “cosmic filaments” binding galaxy clusters might parallel the intricate networks of neurons and synapses in […]
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 […]
According to some physicists, the wormhole is a way of describing quantum entanglement. If this claim is true, there is a connection between quantum mechanics and general relativity. #entanglement #wormhole #physics
