Philosophical Speculations

Would you say that mathematical platonism and metaphysical idealism are compatible? If yes, to what extend are they compatible and how exactly? Mathematical platonism argues and postulates that mathematical objects/entities exist objectively in a platonic realm of existence. Idealism argues and post...

My question concerns the hard problem of consciousness at its deepest level. According to Bernardo and the philosophy of mind, what is the hard problem of consciousness? I would say that it is why and how we do have subjective inner experience that we call consciousness. Why and how comes that it fe...

But HOW can indefinitely many universes explain consciousness? There is the hard problem of consciousness... And matter is inanimate...

Hello Bernardo and hello to all members here, I am preoccupied with the idea of whether consciousness is fundemantal and universal, or whether materialism is true in the sense of creating gazillions of universes in an observation. Why do these point of views stand against each other? I mean, I reall...