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Bernardo Kastrup
"The brain doesn't generate mind in the same way that a whirlpool doesn't generate water."
Bernardo Kastrup is a Dutch computer scientist, philosopher, and one of the most prominent defenders of "metaphysical idealism" - the notion that the world originates in the mind, instead of being independent of our experience - 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.
As developed in such texts as Why Materialism is Baloney and The Idea of the World, Bernardo's stance is that "the body is in mind, not mind in the body"

"The brain doesn't generate mind in the same way that a whirlpool doesn't generate water."
Bernardo Kastrup is a Dutch computer scientist, philosopher, and one of the most prominent defenders of "metaphysical idealism" - the notion that the world originates in the mind, instead of being independent of our experience - 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.
As developed in such texts as Why Materialism is Baloney and The Idea of the World, Bernardo's stance is that "the body is in mind, not mind in the body"
Bernardo Kastrup Videos

Beyond material
Should we embrace the immaterial?

Consciousness in the machine
Could AI ever be conscious?

Consciousness and the world
The relationship between experience and reality

The new science of consciousness
Will science crack the mystery of consciousness?
Bernardo Kastrup Articles

Consciousness Cannot Have Evolved

The Mysterious Disappearance of Consciousness

Why Materialism is a Dead-End

Schopenhauer’s sense of self

The Mysterious Reappearance of Consciousness

Materialism as a political weapon
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The Limits of Logic
Should we embrace the irrational?

What We Cannot Know
What about the universe is left to discover?

The New Enlightenment
Can we reclaim objectivity after relativism?

The Laws of the Universe
Are the laws of nature just human constructs?

Hawking vs. Philosophy
Has science killed philosophy?

Post-Truth and Postmodernism
Is truth just a construct?

After the End of Truth
Is there such a thing as objective truth?

How To Spot Pseudoscience
Separating Fact From Fiction | Massimo Pigliucci

Down the Rabbit Hole
Confronting the limits of perception.

Cause and the Universe
The many-worlds of quantum physics

Beyond Quantum
Is quantum physics wrong? | Gerard 't Hooft

The Good, the Bad and the Unknown
Is morality independent of outcome?

After the End of Evidence
Massimo Pigliucci on empiricism's end-date

The Limits of Science
Truth and the boundaries of knowledge

Decolonising Philosophy
Do we need to wake up to western prejudice?

After Post-Truth
How do we navigate a world where truth is tribal?

I Am Not A Brain
Markus Gabriel | 'The mind' is a vague concept

Truth and the Universe
What are the limits of science?

Explaining the Inexplicable
Is explanation an illusion?

The Reality of Feeling
Reason and Emotion

The Prejudice of Facts
Are there no facts, only interpretations?

Uncovering the Unknown
Does science uncover the truth?

Beyond Knowledge
Is truth an illusion?

Ultimate Proof
Is evidence an illusion?

This is Our Church
Science as religion

The Science Delusion
Rupert Sheldrake on the blind spots of science

Truth, Error & Adventure

Science, Sex and Subjectivity
Is there a feminist way of doing science?

The Elegant Truth
Angela Breitenbach investigates elegance

Poetic Theories
Can scientists learn from poets?

Revolutions of Knowledge
The future of physics

The Eureka Moment
Are mavericks the real innovators in science?

The Origin of Knowledge

Science, Magic and the Inexplicable
After the Last Magician

Blinded by the Light
Metaphors of truth and reality

Everything We Know Is Wrong
Can science alone uncover the truth?

Science… Fiction?
The future of science

Facts and Fantasy
Are facts a fiction?

The Arc of Life: Roger Penrose
A biography of quantum gravity's founding father

Leonardo's Vision
What can art teach science?

The Origin of Everything
Much ado about nothing

Knowledge and Power
Why science is not enough

The Persecution of Heretics
How inconvenient science gets shut down

Alchemy, Anarchy, and Science
Is science the defining triumph of modernity?

Everything Explained
How science holds all answers

The Tyranny of Evidence
Why the absence of proof is not enough

The End of Theory
The rise of big data

The Comedy of Errors
Scientific errors and new adventures

Being Certain
Are convictions dangerous?

Saving Science
More Articles

Reality is not what it seems

Why panpsychism is baloney

A strange perspective on the practice of science

The universal mind

Materialism will be mocked

The unexpected origin of matter

Schopenhauer’s sense of self

Consciousness Cannot Have Evolved

The Mysterious Reappearance of Consciousness

The Mysterious Disappearance of Consciousness

Will We Ever Understand Consciousness?

Why Materialism is a Dead-End