SCIENCE

The NEW Worldview to explain it all | Q&A with Bernardo Kastrup

Essentia Foundation | October 29, 2024

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 Essentia Foundation)

Physicalism offered an equilibrium for around two hundred years. But if one closely looks in the fields of neuroscience, physics and philosophy, anomalies are piling up. The only way to still entertain the idea that physicalism can make sense of unexplainable empirical phenomena—ranging from loophole-free Bell inequality tests, to altered mental states, to undeniable new evidence around Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP’s)—is to literally ‘don’t look up,’ to paraphrase the hilarious Netflix film that actually was a painfully accurate cultural critique of our times.

In this Q&A Hans Busstra and Bernardo Kastrup discuss questions coming in around anomalies in the fields of NDE’s, UAP’s and fundamental physics. Though analytic idealism can’t offer clear-cut answers to most of these questions, it can—and this is a crucial difference with physicalism—in principle build testable theories around these phenomena. For instance, if nature consists of mental states, it is not unthinkable that when dissociative processes weaken—for instance, during NDE’s—that people can experience other people’s experiences. And if UAP’s in some cases seem to present themselves as mental phenomena, under idealism it doesn’t follow that they are imaginary.

If we want to continue the scientific endeavour of accurately describing and predicting the behaviour of nature, we need to ‘look up’ under all circumstances; analytic idealism offers us a new telescope to do so confidently. Our YouTube channel is the place where we look through the telescope playfully, allowing ourselves to be troubled as well as excited: a revolutionary shift in science seems ahead and we want to report it to you from the forefront.

00:00 Introduction
03:54 What Essentia is up to
05:02 Entropy is in the eye of the beholder
09:36 Shannon’s way of looking at entropy
10:47 Maybe the universe is becoming increasingly ordered, instead of ordered
12:34 Do tables and computers have consciousness according to integrated information theory?
13:53 You don’t have free will
17:15 ‘Could have been’ is a fantasy…
18:50 Can you ‘disallow’ the universe to ‘play’ you?
23:20 How to apply ‘no free will’ to your life in a positive way
27:03 We are only talking about books written by men…
28:26 Lou Salomé on Nietzsche
31:53 Male versus female archetype
35:07 On transcending gender and individuation
37:26 How does music relate to time?
42:03 Bernardo on the Higgs Boson
45:02 On the beauty of Eulers equation
46:08 On reading math like a partiture
48:31 Let’s talk about unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP’s)
53:23 Physical evidence for the existence of UAP’s
54:18 UAP’s appear to be as much mental as physical phenomena
55:53 On how UAP’s violate physics and metaphysics
1:03:23 How to make sense of the ‘self’ in an NDE from an idealist perspective?
1:08:46 How you can experience being someone else during an NDE—
1:12:35 How are our experiences being reported back to mind at large when we die?
1:14:33 There are only present states in the universe
1:15:57 Are bacteria conscious?
1:18:28 A sign of metacognition is when species start acting against instinct…
1:21:05 How do you know what Nature’s purpose with you is?
1:25:31 The impersonal that moves through us does not give a damn
1:28:54 How to derive an ethics from analytic idealism?
1:34:47 It is our obligation to pass moral judgment upon nature