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The Idea of the World: A Multi-Disciplinary Argument for the Mental Nature of Reality
Written by Bernardo Kastrup
Narrated by Matthew Josdal
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A rigorous case for the primacy of mind in nature, from philosophy to neuroscience, psychology, and physics.
The Idea of the World offers a grounded alternative to the frenzy of unrestrained abstractions and unexamined assumptions in philosophy and science today. This book examines what can be learned about the nature of reality based on conceptual parsimony, straightforward logic, and empirical evidence from fields as diverse as physics and neuroscience. It compiles an overarching case for idealism-the notion that reality is essentially mental-from ten original articles the author has previously published in leading academic journals. The case begins with an exposition of the logical fallacies and internal contradictions of the reigning physicalist ontology and its popular alternatives, such as bottom-up panpsychism. It then advances a compelling formulation of idealism that elegantly makes sense of-and reconciles-classical and quantum worlds. The main objections to idealism are systematically refuted and empirical evidence is reviewed that corroborates the formulation presented here. The book closes with an analysis of the hidden psychological motivations behind mainstream physicalism and the implications of idealism for the way we relate to the world.
The Idea of the World offers a grounded alternative to the frenzy of unrestrained abstractions and unexamined assumptions in philosophy and science today. This book examines what can be learned about the nature of reality based on conceptual parsimony, straightforward logic, and empirical evidence from fields as diverse as physics and neuroscience. It compiles an overarching case for idealism-the notion that reality is essentially mental-from ten original articles the author has previously published in leading academic journals. The case begins with an exposition of the logical fallacies and internal contradictions of the reigning physicalist ontology and its popular alternatives, such as bottom-up panpsychism. It then advances a compelling formulation of idealism that elegantly makes sense of-and reconciles-classical and quantum worlds. The main objections to idealism are systematically refuted and empirical evidence is reviewed that corroborates the formulation presented here. The book closes with an analysis of the hidden psychological motivations behind mainstream physicalism and the implications of idealism for the way we relate to the world.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A thorough and compelling argument for an idealistic basis for consciousness and everything. I get the sense that we know nothing
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5"You think string theory is unfalsifiable and simply an explanatory theory with predictive power lacking practicability? Hold my beer." That's what I imagine started the author on his quest.
I don't know why the author thinks it's important for us to know his papers were submitted and mostly published in reputable journals. The point of journals is to make dissemination of different ideas possible. It doesn't mean much else. Same reason I read this book till the end. People are curious, they want to learn from other peoples' ideas. The introduction shows some bizarre attitude where the author suggests he somehow fooled the journals into publishing material for his book. What?
It didn't convince me, in fact I'm not sure what exactly the author was trying to convince me of, other than that it's all in my mind and somehow findings of psychology of a particular species of creatures living on an insignificant little blue-green planet are in some way relevant to the nature of the universe. Metaphors can be an explanatory aid, not the definition of an idea.