THE ONTOLOGY OF EXISTENCE: THE NEXT PARADIGM. A REVIEW OF THE BOOK "THE IDEA OF THE WORLD: A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY ARGUMENT FOR THE MENTAL NATURE OF REALITY", BY BERNARDO KASTRUP
Antropologìčnì Vimìri Fìlosofsʹkih Doslìdžen' February 6, 2019 O. A. Bazaluk 5 citations
A new book by Bernardo Kastrup presents a rigorous formulation of idealism, arguing that reality is fundamentally experiential and that a universal phenomenal consciousness is the sole ontological primitive. Patterns of excitation in this consciousness constitute existence, and human beings are dissociated mental complexes within it, like islands surrounded by an ocean of mentation. Kastrup contrasts this idealist ontology with physicalism, microexperientialism, and cosmopsychism, and suggests that idealism may revive as the next paradigm, with universal mind as nature's sole fundamental entity.