But does Kastrup's TOE yield any testable predictions?
Brent
On 5/1/2019 12:28 AM, cloudver...@gmail.com wrote:
Not my view of course, but here is
*Analytic Idealism: A consciousness-only ontology*
Bernardo Kastrup
Dissertation, Radboud University Nijmegen (2019)
https://philpapers.org/rec/KASAIA-3
pdf: https://philpapers.org/archive/KASAIA-3.pdf
Abstract
This thesis articulates an analytic version of the ontology of
idealism, according to which universal phenomenal consciousness is all
there ultimately is, everything else in nature being reducible to
patterns of excitation of this consciousness. The thesis’ key
challenge is to explain how the seemingly distinct conscious inner
lives of different subjects—such as you and me—can arise within this
fundamentally unitary phenomenal field. Along the way, a variety of
other challenges are addressed, such as: how we can reconcile idealism
with the fact that we all inhabit a common external world; why this
world unfolds independently of our personal volition or imagination;
why there are such tight correlations between measured patterns of
brain activity and reports of experience; etc. The core idea of this
thesis can be summarized thus: we, as well as all other living
organisms, are dissociated alters of universal phenomenal
consciousness, analogously to how a person with Dissociative Identity
Disorder (DID) manifests multiple disjoint centers of subjectivity
also called ‘alters.’ We, and all other living organisms, are
surrounded by the transpersonal phenomenal activity of universal
consciousness, which unfolds beyond the dissociative boundary of our
respective alter. The inanimate world we perceive around us is the
extrinsic appearance—i.e. the phenomenal image imprinted from across
our dissociative boundary—of this activity. The living organisms we
share the world with are the extrinsic appearances of other alters.
Keywords
idealism panpsychism cosmopsychism dissociation altered states of
consciousness mind-body problem consciousness hard problem of
consciousness subject combination problem
The (1hr) thesis defense:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcMOape0PY8
- @philipthrift
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