Podcast description: Materialism is dead. There are simply too many questions left unanswered after years of studying the brain. Now, people are scrambling for a new way to understand the mind-body relationship. Cartesian dualism has become a whipping boy in philosophy, but it has advantages over the alternatives. Dr. Joshua Farris discusses Cartesianism and philosophy with Dr. Michael Egnor.
Oh yeah I'm really into Kastrup. IIRC he is the only person ever alive who has sucessfully defended a PhD on this topic, pretty much everyone else gets laughed out of the room. I feel like it's bullshit though, but some of his arguments against hard physicalism are fairly convincing.
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I think he might be pretty solidly left wing tho, not a communist but he definitely has that bent from what I've seen him post on FB
edit: One of the most insane things I've ever read in a book was Kastrup talking about how there was a tribe in like, the Amazon that had a huge suicide problem because they were so detached from materialism as a metaphysics people had ZERO fear of death and would immediately off themselves when family members died to follow them
If what he's proposing is bullshit I feel like it's way less bullshit than hard physicalism. "Everything is Mind" is a hard pill to swallow but it makes more sense to me than "nothing is Mind".
I think he's still a lib but one of the good ones, he seems to be able to sniff out the bullshit that comes out of western media. I can totally see him getting more radical in the coming years.
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