Philosophical Speculations

I think it's just concerning that a seeming majority of idealists have a strong bias towards sprituality. Well for those who've known the profound experiential component of the primacy of consciousness there is no need for scientific verification of those experiences, since it's no longer a case of...

Astra ... I'd suggest that lack of scientific verification that consciousness is solely an epiphenomenon of brain activity surely hasn't hindered materialism from becoming the predominant paradigm. Nor has lack of verification for there being some 'stuff' of matter existing independent of conscious...

Given the level of organisation of the Guerilla Skeptics, it would be great if the Essentia Foundation or some other motivated folks kick-started a Materialism Skeptics group of Wikipedia editors. Yes. I hope Essentia has an explicit Wikipedia strategy. If not, they should get one. This is what it ...

That sounds about right. India has usually been about 15-25 years lag behind Western culture, but obviously that gap is closing with modern technology. I don't expect China to embrace idealism or religious outlook anytime soon. But materialism as a dominant metaphysical and scientific paradigm is o...

I think that’s a possibility. However I also think places like China, and certainly India which I know better, are themselves becoming more materialist as a result of western culture. In some ways I think the west is maybe starting to become less materialist, whilst India is becoming more materiali...

Recently I've been wondering if idealism or even other post-materialist views of science will reach the mainstream and become widly accepted. What do we think the prospects are for that? I'm really hoping as time goes on and we learn more about things like quantum mechanics or continuing the psyched...

Question for Bernardo:

-What are the prospects of idealism becoming a (if the not the) mainstream explantory model used in science?