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Science Ideated

The Fall of Matter and the Contours of the Next Mainstream Scientific Worldview

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Science Ideated

By: Bernardo Kastrup
Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
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Summary

Leading-edge empirical observations are increasingly difficult to reconcile with "scientific" materialism. Laboratory results in quantum mechanics, for instance, strongly indicate that there is no autonomous world of tables and chairs out there. Coupled with the inability of materialist neuroscience to explain consciousness, this is forcing both science and philosophy to contemplate alternative worldviews. Analytic idealism—the notion that reality, while equally amenable to scientific inquiry, is fundamentally mental—is a leading contender to replace "scientific" materialism. 

In this book, the broad body of empirical evidence and reasoning in favor of analytic idealism is reviewed in an accessible manner. The book brings together a number of highly influential essays previously published by major media outlets such as Scientific American and the Institute of Art and Ideas. The essays have been revised and improved, while two never-before-published essays have been added. The resulting argument anticipates a historically imminent transition to a scientific worldview that, while elegantly accommodating all known empirical evidence and predictive models, regards mind, not matter, as the ground of all reality.

©2020 Bernardo Kastrup (P)2022 Tantor History & Philosophy Metaphysics Philosophy Science
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This is yet another beautifully insightful book from Kastrup. Absolutely love his thoughts. Very much recommended.

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Kastrup is fascinating. I've read several of his books and have had my mind blown. But I struggled with this one. The content is great but the narration was so distracting for me. I am highly sensitive so maybe others will disagree, but I felt like the narrator was an actor. The reading was very dramatic, like the voice over on Stand by Me or Wonder Years. That's not what I'm looking for in an non fiction book contemplating the nature of everything. To make things worse the dramatic intonation, pauses, and emphasis was so often in the wrong place. So I found myself missing the meaning of sentences and thinking about the narrator rather than the content. A better book and one that is read in a non distracting way is Kastrups Materialism is Baloney.

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