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 […]
Bernardo Kastrup argues why the dichotomy between free will and determinism is false. Watch the entire interview here: https://youtu.be/Nv1OXXfTYfk?si=5gpR6LlbCm1mjoWQ&t=890 In this Q&A, Bernardo Kastrup (Director of the Essentia Foundation) and Hans Busstra delve into the concept of free will through the lens of analytical idealism. Do we truly possess free […]
