Conversations on consciousness, philosophy of mind, non-dualism, phenomenology, and the hard problem.
Curated by: Curt Jaimungal (139 videos)
Bernardo Kastrup is the preeminent Western philosopher espousing metaphysical idealism, and John Vervaeke is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto focusing on the "meaning crisis" and a 3rd wave cognitive science approach to mindfulness. This is Part 1. Part 2 is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw6BFDJ765w. Every episode days early, ad-free, plus my essays: https://curtjaimungal.substack.com/subscribe - Part 2 of Kastrup and Vervaeke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw6BFDJ765w - Curt's interview with JV alone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p8o3-7mvQc - Curt's interview with BK alone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAB21FAXCDE Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal Crypto: https://nowpayments.io/donation/TOE PayPal: https://tinyurl.com/paypalTOE Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/better-left-unsaid-with-curt-jaimungal/id1521758802 Pandora: https://pdora.co/33b9lfP Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e Subreddit r/TheoriesOfEverything: https://reddit.com/r/theoriesofeverything Merch: https://tinyurl.com/TOEmerch LINKS MENTIONED: - JV's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/johnvervaeke -JV's "Meaning Crisis" series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54l8_ewcOlY&list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ - BK's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeDZCa3VrRQvzBlVR-oVVmA THANK YOU: - Phil Chertook (who has graciously served as a mini-Jamie to this TOE video). - Grizwald Grim (a volunteer from the TOE Discord) for the timestamps TIMESTAMPS: 0:00:00 Introduction 0:08:50 Green Room 0:09:43 Context Exposition 0:10:33 Intros to Vervaeke and Kastrup 0:12:53 Vervaeke Deep Continuity Rationalist 0:16:18 BK Analytic Idealist - mind as foundation of matter 0:29:12 Science and Consciousness 0:40:48 Relativity, conceptual parsimony, parsimonious postulates & Alien Abduction 0:47:18 Individuating Consciousness 0:52:22 Elegance & Problematic Parsimony - why not be a realist? 0:58:28 Questioning the Experiencer - Precisely Transcendental 1:06:33 Dissociative Folded Experiential Reflection 1:15:11 Solving the Meaning Crisis 1:26:24 Fluid Compensation for Physicalist Façade 1:34:21 The Obviousness of Experience & Fields of Intelligibility 1:40:00 Meaning and Ontology 1:44:40 Meta-meaning Worldview & The Bouncer of the Heart 1:51:05 How do you define what exists - how can we know what's real? 2:04:33 Real Field Harmonics 2:15:01 Observation Beyond Dissociative Boundaries 2:26:37 Inducing Dissociation in the Universal Mind 2:34:40 Jung and Meta-consciousness 2:50:26 Mind Over Matter - Subjective Phenomenological Substrate 2:59:42 The Absent Incoherence Argument 3:07:20 The Universe May be Learning Its Laws of Physics 3:19:42 Intentionality and Causal Relations 3:28:42 Top Down, Bottom's Up - Fattening up Access Consciousness 3:36:26 The Humean Monster and Integration Problem 3:38:30 Closing the Explanatory Gap 3:39:31 Allies Addressing the Meaning Crisis & Close