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Bernardo Kastrup
Bernardo Kastrup is the executive director of Essentia Foundation. His work has been leading the modern renaissance of metaphysical idealism, the notion that reality is essentially mental. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy (ontology, philosophy of mind) and another Ph.D. in computer engineering (reconfigurable computing, artificial intelligence). As a scientist, Bernardo has worked for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the Philips Research Laboratories (where the 'Casimir Effect' of Quantum Field Theory was discovered). Formulated in detail in many academic papers and books, his ideas have been featured on 'Scientific American,' the 'Institute of Art and Ideas,' the 'Blog of the American Philosophical Association' and 'Big Think,' among others.
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    Image source: Wikimedia Commons. As we leave yet another intense week behind, there is a confluence of concerning thoughts in my mind re...
  • Conquering the fear of oblivion (in 15 minutes)
    Photo by Bernardo Kastrup of a statue by Hildegard Bienen, hereby released into the public domain. Most people fear death. And amon...
  • The LSD study: you're being subtly deceived (again)
    (Update 13 April 2016: A follow-up essay has been published after a study author commented on this post. Click here to view. ) From PN...
  • Sam Harris' critique of Eben Alexander
    Cover of Newsweek  magazine with Eben Alexander's story. Newsweek Magazine's cover article this week is Eben Alexander's r...
  • Introducing the Idea of the World
    My new book, The Idea of the World , is now available on amazon.com ,  amazon.co.uk , other online retailers and many bookshops ...
  • The Church's incomprehensible suicide
    I woke up today to the news that the Vatican has declared homosexuality a 'sin' and a 'choice' (Some have claimed that what ...
  • Dim-witted biologist: consciousness is accidental
    Daphnia (crustacean water flea). It's finally Friday evening and my week's work is done. The past few days have been very produc...
  • How militant atheists stole your sense of meaning to enhance theirs
    (Update: a revised, extended and much improved version of this essay has been published in the academic journal SAGE Open  and is freely av...
  • Brian Cox and the idolatry of nerds
    (An improved and updated version of this essay has appeared in my book Brief Peeks Beyond . The version below is kept for legacy purposes.)...
  • Decoding Jung's Metaphysics: Prelude
    Today my new book,  Decoding Jung's Metaphysics ,  is being published. To celebrate the occasion, I am reproducing below Chapter 1, '...

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