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  1. Bernardo Kastrup

    Need Help: Upcoming Interview w/ Bernardo Kastrup

    This sounds interesting to discuss as well
  2. Bernardo Kastrup

    Need Help: Upcoming Interview w/ Bernardo Kastrup

    I addressed the second question long ago, here: http://www.bernardokastrup.com/2012/09/apparitions-ghosts-and-mediumistic.html
  3. Bernardo Kastrup

    Need Help: Upcoming Interview w/ Bernardo Kastrup

    I, for one, think these are pretty good questions that I'd love to discuss.
  4. Bernardo Kastrup

    New Bernardo Kastrup Paper: What Neuroimaging of the Psychedelic State Tells Us about the Mind-Body

    Then you should take it up with the authors of the psychedelic neuroimaging studies and argue against their conclusions. Their observations and conclusions (not necessarily their _interpretation_ of the results) are my starting point.
  5. Bernardo Kastrup

    New Bernardo Kastrup Paper: What Neuroimaging of the Psychedelic State Tells Us about the Mind-Body

    I guess you didn't understand my argument. I can only point back to my paper, where it is explained. Last try: my argument is entirely agnostic of the pattern of brain activity. Connectivity is a pattern.
  6. Bernardo Kastrup

    New Bernardo Kastrup Paper: What Neuroimaging of the Psychedelic State Tells Us about the Mind-Body

    My argument is a first-principles argument based on the information tie-up between brain states and subjective states, which is implied by physicalism (if physicalism doesn't imply that then it says nothing). The structure of the argument is such that the particular pattern of information --...
  7. Bernardo Kastrup

    New Bernardo Kastrup Paper: What Neuroimaging of the Psychedelic State Tells Us about the Mind-Body

    Then, contrary to what you suggested, this should be a direct indication of brain activity resolved per brain location. That's the point of MEG and EEG. Moreover, my argument is precisely NOT about total, aggregate brain activity. Read the paper again.
  8. Bernardo Kastrup

    New Bernardo Kastrup Paper: What Neuroimaging of the Psychedelic State Tells Us about the Mind-Body

    This is hand waving. NCCs are the neural correlates of consciousness, whatever they may look like. My argument is generic enough that I don't need to know exactly what neural dynamics are involved in the NCCs.
  9. Bernardo Kastrup

    New Bernardo Kastrup Paper: What Neuroimaging of the Psychedelic State Tells Us about the Mind-Body

    You seem to have failed to read the paper with enough attention. I start the paper precisely by addressing this point.
  10. Bernardo Kastrup

    New Bernardo Kastrup Paper: What Neuroimaging of the Psychedelic State Tells Us about the Mind-Body

    The part of the quote you added actually makes my point, instead of contradicting it. I didn't quote it for brevity. As for connectivity, it is simply a pattern of brain activity. A dead brain has no connectivity. My argument is independent of the specific pattern of brain activity. It is a...
  11. Bernardo Kastrup

    New Bernardo Kastrup Paper: What Neuroimaging of the Psychedelic State Tells Us about the Mind-Body

    I don't know what you mean by "power drop." The studies try to measure brain activity, sometimes through proxy measurements (such as BOLD/CBF) and sometimes directly (through MEG).
  12. Bernardo Kastrup

    Mod+ 274. DR. BERNARDO KASTRUP, WHY OUR CULTURE IS MATERIALISTIC

    Guys, because of time constraints, I will be reducing my participation in this thread. Will come back and have a look in a week or so, hopefully! Thanks for all the great feedback and criticisms; both appreciated. Cheers, B.
  13. Bernardo Kastrup

    Mod+ 274. DR. BERNARDO KASTRUP, WHY OUR CULTURE IS MATERIALISTIC

    The 'you' that you wish could imagine the sandwich into existence is a small dissociated complex of mind: the ego. Yet, the non-personal you, in the sense of your broader self -- mind-at-large -- is indeed imagining the sandwich when you eat it. That a small dissociated segment of mind-at-large...
  14. Bernardo Kastrup

    Mod+ 274. DR. BERNARDO KASTRUP, WHY OUR CULTURE IS MATERIALISTIC

    Our mind survives certainly in the form of mind-at-large, our true identity, our true 'I am,' which wouldn't identify itself with any particular person or specific sets of memories. Perhaps even what Jung called the 'personal unconscious' (a personal, at least partly dissociated/differentiated...
  15. Bernardo Kastrup

    Mod+ 274. DR. BERNARDO KASTRUP, WHY OUR CULTURE IS MATERIALISTIC

    The video I linked above is the brief explanation! :)
  16. Bernardo Kastrup

    Mod+ 274. DR. BERNARDO KASTRUP, WHY OUR CULTURE IS MATERIALISTIC

    You are now asking me to explain my philosophical system from scratch. If I did it every time I was asked, my fingers would fall off from typing. :) So please have a look at my published work. I sent you already several links to free material in this thread, many of which address precisely these...
  17. Bernardo Kastrup

    Mod+ 274. DR. BERNARDO KASTRUP, WHY OUR CULTURE IS MATERIALISTIC

    Also see this for a very, very brief overview:
  18. Bernardo Kastrup

    Mod+ 274. DR. BERNARDO KASTRUP, WHY OUR CULTURE IS MATERIALISTIC

    That healthy sandwich is a cluster of experiences in your mind. Your hunger is an experience in your mind. You can dream up the feeling of hunger and the eating of a healthy sandwich. The 'objective world' you are referring to isn't at all outside your mind, otherwise you wouldn't know anything...
  19. Bernardo Kastrup

    Mod+ 274. DR. BERNARDO KASTRUP, WHY OUR CULTURE IS MATERIALISTIC

    I don't see what's to get around... What do you mean by 'the objective world'? If you mean experiences that unfold autonomously, in the sense of being outside the control of your volition, then yes, there are such experiences. It's still all in consciousness, just outside personal volition. Even...
  20. Bernardo Kastrup

    Mod+ 274. DR. BERNARDO KASTRUP, WHY OUR CULTURE IS MATERIALISTIC

    I don't reject reality. I reject the inference that reality is outside consciousness and that what we experience is a brain-generated reconstruction of that reality. Color, flavor, the feeling of hunger, the warmth of fire and love, the concreteness and hardness of a rock, all these things are...
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