Beyond Us is an all-new mini-series made in association with Essentia Foundation, exploring four concepts that define the modern world: knowledge, competition, language and growth.
In each episode the series hosts - humanitarian Fred Matser and philosopher Bernardo Kastrup - are joined by a leading thinker with a unique take on one of these fascinating topics.
Episode One: Knowledge | with Rebecca Goldstein
Episode Two: Competition | with Donald Hoffman
Episode Three: Language | with Jennifer Hornsby
Episode Four: Growth | with Mo Gawdat
Episode Five: Bonus Review | with the Series Hosts
The Series Hosts
Fred Matser is the founder & chairman of the Fred Foundation and a leading Dutch humanitarian. He has been active in social and ecological transformation and is the founder and co-founder of a wide range of charitable foundations that span the fields of health, environment, nature conservation, peace and global transformation. The principles underlying these foundations are based on inspiring co-creativity, self-sufficiency, empowerment, inspiration and harmony.
Bernardo Kastrup is a Dutch computer scientist, philosopher, and one of the most prominent defenders of "metaphysical idealism" - the notion that reality is essentially mental - in the academic world today. Bernardo has worked as a scientist in leading laboratories across the world including CERN and the Philips Research Laboratories, and he is a regular contributor to Scientific American.