Philosophical Speculations

I’m hosting a Q&A with both Donald Hoffman and Bernardo Kastrup , Thursday November 17 at 11am PT (2pm ET / 8pm CET) on the Analytic Idealism Discord server . I’d like to invite anyone who is interested. The event itself is pretty neat: you get a chance to ask both Bernardo and Don your question...

Federica wrote: ↑Sun Jul 03, 2022 9:42 pm Thank you for asking both of my questions!

My pleasure. They were great questions! Thanks again.

Ben Iscatus wrote: ↑Wed Feb 02, 2022 2:26 pm (B)
Need to explain why this is not a version of solipsism.

Asked and answered here.

My apologies for crediting you for the question when it was Ashvin who you were summarizing. I’ve updated the description, and I’ll make sure to include it in the subtitles.

First, I would notice how Bernardo proceeds to reject a common objection to idealism, namely the natural order objection, which questions how the stable and orderly natural laws that we observe in nature can represent something as notoriously unstable and disorderly as thoughts and emotions at the ...

This critical question is about the argumentation used by Bernardo to infer the idea of a dissociative boundary coincident with the body of living beings . His starting point is: 'Notice that the boundaries of our body are not arbitrary. Our ability to perceive ends at the surface of the body: our ...

Guys, can we keep this thread limited to concise criticism? (looking at you, Ashvin )

EDIT: For anyone interested, the 3rd round of the AMA with Bernardo Kastrup is happening June 30th, 8pm CET (11am PT) at The Analytic Idealism Discord Server.

If there is one critical question you could ask Bernardo, or one critique you could offer him, what would it be? I’m hosting AMAs on my Discord server and there is a good chance another round of questions with Bernardo is coming up in which we like to focus on criticism of analytic idealism (or Ber...

Some of you might be interested to know that Bernardo will be doing an AMA, Wednesday February 9, at 20:00 (8pm) CET, on the Analytic Idealism Discord Server https://discord.gg/4y9pYY6YrH.