Ep 43 | UTOKing with Bernardo Kastrup | Analytic Idealism

In Episode 43, Gregg welcomes Bernardo Kastrup. He is the executive director of the Essentia Foundation, and his work is leading the modern renaissance of metaphysical idealism, the notion that reality is essentially mental. He has doctoral degrees in philosophy and computer engineering, and he has authored many works and given many interviews delineating analytic idealism and why it affords the best ontological view. In this conversation, Bernardo provides an overview of analytic idealism, and he and Gregg explore its relation with UTOK. They demonstrate some key areas of alignment, especially in their shared critique of reductive physicalism, explore some overlap between Bernardo's concept of Mind-at-large and the Energy Information Implicate Order on the Tree of Knowledge System. They also riff on how UTOK frames metacognition, and Gregg introduces Justification Systems Theory to Bernardo and the two explore possible future domains in which the two systems might complement each other. --- 📘 Resources mentioned in this episode 📘 --- 🌐 Essentia Foundation: https://www.essentiafoundation.org/ --- ℹ️ Find out more about Bernardo Kastrup ℹ️ --- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeDZCa3VrRQvzBlVR-oVVmA Twitter: https://twitter.com/BernardoKastrup Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BernardoKastrup/ GoodReads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4552692.Bernardo_Kastrup GoogleScholar: https://scholar.google.nl/citations?user=wFypi3MAAAAJ&hl=en --- ℹ️ Find out more about Gregg Henriques ℹ️ --- Psychology Today: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/contributors/gregg-henriques-phd Medium: https://gregghenriques.medium.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/henriqgx --- 🌳 The Unified Theory of Knowledge 🌳 --- Homepage: https://www.unifiedtheoryofknowledge.org/ Medium: https://medium.com/unified-theory-of-knowledge Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_knowledge_system