Bernardo Kastrup Λ John Vervaeke on Meta-Consciousness
Bernardo Kastrup is the preeminent Western philosopher espousing metaphysical idealism, and John Vervaeke is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto focusing on the "meaning crisis" and a 3rd wave cognitive science approach to mindfulness. This is Part 1. Part 2 is here • Kastrup Λ Vervaeke: Mind Uploading & Shado... .
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Part 2 of Kastrup and Vervaeke: • Kastrup Λ Vervaeke: Mind Uploading & Shado...
Curt's interview with JV alone: • John Vervaeke: Psychedelics, Evil, & Buddhism
Curt's interview with BK alone: • Escaping the Illusion: Bernardo Kastrup Ex...
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-JV's "Meaning Crisis" series: • Ep. 1 - Awakening from the Meaning Crisis ...
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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00:00 Introduction
0:08:50 Green Room
0:09:43 Context Exposition
0:10:33 Intros to Vervaeke and Kastrup
0:12:53 Vervaeke Deep Continuity Rationalist
0:16:18 BK Analytic Idealist - mind as foundation of matter
0:29:12 Science and Consciousness
0:40:48 Relativity, conceptual parsimony, parsimonious postulates & Alien Abduction
0:47:18 Individuating Consciousness
0:52:22 Elegance & Problematic Parsimony - why not be a realist?
0:58:28 Questioning the Experiencer - Precisely Transcendental
1:06:33 Dissociative Folded Experiential Reflection
1:15:11 Solving the Meaning Crisis
1:26:24 Fluid Compensation for Physicalist Façade
1:34:21 The Obviousness of Experience & Fields of Intelligibility
1:40:00 Meaning and Ontology
1:44:40 Meta-meaning Worldview & The Bouncer of the Heart
1:51:05 How do you define what exists - how can we know what's real?
2:04:33 Real Field Harmonics
2:15:01 Observation Beyond Dissociative Boundaries
2:26:37 Inducing Dissociation in the Universal Mind
2:34:40 Jung and Meta-consciousness
2:50:26 Mind Over Matter - Subjective Phenomenological Substrate
2:59:42 The Absent Incoherence Argument
3:07:20 The Universe May be Learning Its Laws of Physics
3:19:42 Intentionality and Causal Relations
3:28:42 Top Down, Bottom's Up - Fattening up Access Consciousness
3:36:26 The Humean Monster and Integration Problem
3:38:30 Closing the Explanatory Gap
3:39:31 Allies Addressing the Meaning Crisis & Close