Mind, Matter & Mystery at Hay Festival – Meeting Rupert Sheldrake "In a largely secular age it is easy to suppose we live in a purely material universe. Yet our thoughts, memories and experience – from the brilliance of a sunset…
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Mind, Matter & Mystery at Hay Festival
Posted in Videos Tagged with: 1st versus 3rd person perspective, consciousness, David Chalmers, dualism, hard problem of consciousness, materialism, matter, mind, models of reality, Nature as Clock vs Nature as Organism, objectivity, panpsychism, qualia, Schopenhauer, Science, subject of experience, subjectivity, teleological causes, Whitehead
(2) Gödel, Self-Knowledge & Magic Mushrooms
Full script: Introduction: Well, part two of this series is now finished and uploaded. I really hope you like it. Let me take this opportunity to thank all my patrons. Without you, I would not be able to continue working…
Posted in Videos Tagged with: Aldous Huxley, Bernardo Kastrup, boundaries, brain as filter, brain as whirlpool, Carl Jung, consciousness, ego, Erwin Schrödinger, feedback loops, fragmentation, Henry Bergson, Huston Smith, identity, Incompleteness Theorem, integration, introspection, Ken Wilber, knowledge, Kurt Gödel, levels of consciousness, meditation, mind, Mind at Large, mystical experience, Mysticism, Norman Friedman, Perennial Philosophy, psychedelics, Rupert Spira, self-awareness, self-knowledge, self-reference, separation, Shadow, spiritual, the Self, transcendence, wholeness
The Fall of Materialism
The Fall of Materialism – Something from Nothing? – The Dematerialisation of Matter Full script: Materialism: The world view that physical matter is the only reality or that matter is the fundamental substance in Nature, and that all phenomena –…
Posted in Videos Tagged with: actuality, Bernard d'Espagnat, buddhism, consciousnes, creation, dark energy, dark matter, Einstein, emptiness, energy-time, general relativity, Lawrence Krauss, materialism, matter, measurement, mind, no-thing-ness, nothingness, observation, physical, potentiality, probability, quantum field theory, quantum physics, quantum tunnelling, Sean Carroll, something from nothing, special relativity, string theory, uncertainty principle, vacuum, virtual particles, wave-particle duality, Werner Heisenberg
The Clockwork Universe
Who are You in a Deterministic, Materialistic, Reductionistic & Objectively Real World? And the day came when man conceived of a materialistic, deterministic, reductionistic, objectively real clockwork universe made of space, time, energy and matter governed by fixed, unchanging physical…
Posted in Videos Tagged with: animate matter, arrow of time, big-bang, block time, block universe, bottom-up causality, causality, cause and effect, classical physics, clockwork universe, complexity, consciousness, Daniel Dennet, determinism, emergence, emergent consciousness, emergent mind, evolution, free will, goal, illusion of consciousness, illusion of free will, illusion of time, illusory free will, immutable laws of physics, inanimate matter, Laplace, laws of physics, linear causal chains, linear causality, local realism, materialism, mind, nature of self, Objective Realism, purpose, qualia, randomness, reductionism, Richard Dawkins, Richard Feynman, Sam Harris, self-awareness, self-organisation, space-time, spacetime, the Self, time, universe
