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Bernardo Kastrup

Bernardo Kastrup

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.

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Bernardo Kastrup on iai.tv

  • 50:26
    The miracle of mind
  • 48:59
    Beyond material
  • 01:00:22
    Consciousness and the world
  • 52:01
    The new science of consciousness
  • 48:18
    Consciousness in the machine
  • 33:56
    Beyond Us: Knowledge
  • 39:26
    Beyond Us: Competition
  • 40:32
    Beyond Us: Language
  • 44:23
    Beyond Us: Growth
  • 46:00
    Beyond Us: Bonus Review
  • The Case for Idealism
  • Why Materialism is a Dead-End
  • Will We Ever Understand Consciousness?
  • The Mysterious Disappearance of Consciousness
  • The Mysterious Reappearance of Consciousness
  • Consciousness Cannot Have Evolved
  • Schopenhauer’s sense of self
  • Materialism will be mocked
  • The unexpected origin of matter
  • The universal mind
  • A strange perspective on the practice of science
  • Why panpsychism is baloney
  • Reality is not what it seems
  • The lunacy of 'machine consciousness'
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