Welcome to The Big Idea: the ideas that matter, made simple. Regular bite-sized videos on Philosophy, Science, Culture and Arts from the IAI’s most renowned thinkers. This week we examine how our understanding of consciousness is shaped by our conceptual framework of the physical world - and the contradictions that arise from that.
Bernardo Kastrup is a Dutch computer scientist, philosopher, and one of the most prominent defenders of "metaphysical idealism" - the notion that reality is essentially mental - in the academic world today. Bernardo has worked as a scientist in leading laboratories across the world including CERN and the Philips Research Laboratories, and he is a regular contributor to Scientific American.
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