Consciousness All the Way Down? (Robert Wright & Bernardo Kastrup)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

Nonzero

News & Politics, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.7 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2022

⏱️ 130 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

The basics of “analytic idealism”—Bernardo’s consciousness-only theory of reality ... How intuitive is the materialist worldview, really? ... Does evolution select for “true” perceptions of reality? ... Is idealism compatible with evolutionary theory? ... Bernardo: The "physical" world is a convenient fiction ... Putting idealism to the (empirical) test ... The idealist view of various quantum physics quandaries ... Telepathy, premonition, and other “weirdness” under idealism ... Can analytic idealism change your life? ...

This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.nonzero.org/subscribe

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast from Blogging Heads TV.
0:08.6	Hi, Bernardo.
0:10.5	Hi there.
0:11.6	How you doing?
0:12.0	Hi, Robert.
0:13.2	Great.
0:13.8	Yourself?
0:14.5	I can't complain.
0:15.4	Let me introduce this.
0:16.1	I'm Robert Wright.
0:16.8	This is the right show available on both streaming video and via audio podcast.
0:20.7	You are Bernardo Castro, a Dutch, well, computer scientists by training, but in addition to having a PhD in computer science, you have a PhD in philosophy.
0:30.9	You also have a cat, it looks like. Is that a cat I see?
0:33.7	Yeah, yeah. That's flokey.
0:36.9	Yeah. Nice. Nice your cat. You're on the other side. Usually's flucky. Yeah.
0:38.5	Nice.
0:39.1	Nice your cat.
0:40.0	It's on the other side.
0:41.1	Usually he is here.
0:41.9	Uh-huh.
0:44.5	Well, he should feel free to roam.
0:48.3	You think your cat has consciousness?
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Nonzero, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Nonzero and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.