Bernardo Kastrup

Bernardo Kastrup is a Dutch computer scientist and philosopher at the Eindhoven University of Technology. Quotes I propose an idealist ontology that makes sense of reality in a more parsimonious and empirically rigorous manner than mainstream physicalism, bottom-up panpsychism, and cosmopsychism. The proposed ontology also offers more explanatory power than these three alternatives, in that it does not fall prey to the hard problem of consciousness, the combination problem, or the decombination problem, respectively. It can be summarized as follows: there is only cosmic consciousness. We, as well as all other living organisms, are but dissociated alters of cosmic consciousness, surrounded by its thoughts. The inanimate world we see around us is the extrinsic appearance of these thoughts. The living organisms we share the world with are the extrinsic appearances of other dissociated alters. "The Universe in Consciousness", Journal of Consciousness Studies, Vol. 25, iss. 5-6 (2018), p. 125 The brain isn't the cause of experience for the same reason that lightning isn't the cause of atmospheric electric discharge, or that flames aren't the cause of combustion. Just as flames are but the image of the process of combustion, the body-brain system is but the image of localized experience in the stream of universal consciousness. "Why the World Is Imagined: Summary", Metaphysical Speculations, 1 Dec. 2018 External links https://www.bernardokastrup.com Bernardo Kastrup's ORCID Bernardo Kastrup at Academia.edu Category:Authors from the Netherlands Category:Academics from the Netherlands Category:Computer scientists Category:Philosophers from the Netherlands Category:Non-fiction authors Category:Living people Category:Articles with no corresponding English Wikipedia article