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Science Ideated: The Fall Of Matter And The Contours Of The Next Mainstream Scientific Worldview Paperback – September 1, 2021

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Leading-edge empirical observations are increasingly difficult to reconcile with 'scientific' materialism. Laboratory results in quantum mechanics, for instance, strongly indicate that there is no autonomous world of tables and chairs out there. Coupled with the inability of materialist neuroscience to explain consciousness, this is forcing both science and philosophy to contemplate alternative worldviews. Analytic idealism the notion that reality, while equally amenable to scientific inquiry, is fundamentally mental is a leading contender to replace 'scientific' materialism. In this book, the broad body of empirical evidence and reasoning in favor of analytic idealism is reviewed in an accessible manner. The book brings together a number of highly influential essays previously published by major media outlets such as Scientific American and the Institute of Art and Ideas. The essays have been revised and improved, while two neverbeforepublished essays have been added. The resulting argument anticipates a historically imminent transition to a scientific worldview that, while elegantly accommodating all known empirical evidence and predictive models, regards mind not matter as the ground of all reality.

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Bernardo Kastrup has a Ph.D. in philosophy and another in computer engineering. He has been a scientist in some of the world's foremost scientific laboratories. His main interests are metaphysics and philosophy of mind. He lives in Veldhoven, Netherlands.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Iff Books (September 1, 2021)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1789046688
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1789046687
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.57 x 0.61 x 8.6 inches
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I am the executive director of Essentia Foundation and my work has set off the modern renaissance of metaphysical idealism, the notion that reality is essentially mental. I have a Ph.D. in philosophy (ontology, philosophy of mind) and another Ph.D. in computer engineering (reconfigurable computing, artificial intelligence). As a scientist, I have worked for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the Philips Research Laboratories (where the 'Casimir Effect' of Quantum Field Theory was discovered). I have also been creatively active in the high-tech industry for almost 30 years now, having co-founded parallel processor company Silicon Hive (acquired by Intel in 2011) and worked as a technology strategist for the geopolitically significant company ASML. Formulated in detail in many academic papers and books, my ideas have been featured on 'Scientific American,' the magazine of 'The Institute of Art and Ideas,' the 'Blog of the American Philosophical Association' and 'Big Think,' among others. My 11th book, coming in late 2024, is 'Analytic Idealism in a Nutshell: A straightforward summary of the 21st-century's only plausible metaphysics.'

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Mark Bloomer
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant and compelling
Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2021
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Bernardo Kastrup is one of the most intelligent and articulate philosophers of our time. He is able to deliver profound and thought provoking ideas in a very clear and concise way. In his latest book "Science Ideated", Author Bernardo Kastrup ties together several of his recent essays on idealism and vigorously defends his position through clearly written logic, reasoning and allegory. His latest book is so interesting that I am reading it a second time. The authors writing is easy to understand yet profound. I highly recommend this book for a truly eye opening and inspiring read.
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Joe Sauvage
5.0 out of 5 stars A beautiful book
Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2023
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Bernardo uses pieces from multiple books and articles to build a coherent case for analytic idealism to free one from the intellectual chains of materialism. His final chapters are masterful and am deeply grateful for the discussion regarding Parmenides and true logic to free oneself from those chains. Onward we do indeed go…deepest thanks always Bernardo!
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Scientific Paradigm that Transforms Reality and Restores Meaning
Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2021
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The reality we believe in is an illusion. Mystics have said so for millennia, but philosopher and computer scientist Dr. Bernardo Kastrup shows us the anomalies in our reigning materialist worldview using compelling evidence from quantum mechanics, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, and philosophy. More importantly, he proposes an alternative view—analytic idealism—and transforms the foundation of reality from matter to consciousness (but probably not the kind you’re thinking of). In this mental world, the “hard problem of consciousness” disappears, quantum mechanics becomes comprehensible, absurd brain imaging studies are explained, and we find answers to humanity’s oldest questions about identity and meaning.

”Our metaphysical views, even if implicit and unexamined, color every aspect of our lives, from our moral values to our sense of meaning.”

Science Ideated builds on a large body of earlier work yet remains fresh and approachable to newcomers. It is structured as a series of essays, most of which were previously published in respected magazines and journals. They spotlight analytic idealism from its field of competing metaphysics, demonstrate its many benefits for the scientific establishment, and present an exciting vision of the meaning and destiny of Western culture.

”To free the West from illusion, we must first break into the prison wherein the West finds itself, and then break out again carrying the rest of the culture with us.”

Kastrup doesn’t just challenge the world’s favored scientific paradigm—he does it with passion. He knows our culture is so psychologically invested in our myopic view of the world that only a brutal demolition of it will free us to adopt an elevated perspective, and he delivers. Freed from our materialist conditioning, we can begin to heal the dissonance between our head and our heart.

I have been following Kastrup’s work for several years now, and I have adopted his ideas as part of my personal worldview. The result is a seamless union between the rationality of Western science and the spiritual fulfillment of Eastern mysticism. Kastrup was the key to my personal Theory of Everything. I recommend his work to anyone struggling to square science with soul. For a gentler and less technical introduction, I recommend Brief Peaks Beyond or More Than Allegory.
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cambrose
5.0 out of 5 stars A Path Forward
Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2023
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For many in the western world materialism and the modern sciences it begot are or default framework to view the world. After all, science, despite it’s shortcomings and several inherent paradoxes has given us a world of wealth and fantastic technology.

But it doesn’t tell us what reality actually is, or how to think and feel about it. There are some who extract these types of meaning from religion, though that number seems to be always receding. For the rest of us these deeper meanings can seem inaccessible or worse, pointless.

This book is a great entryway to recover from the materialist line of thinking and open your mind to other possibilities, possibilities that may even reconnect you to the deeper meanings materialism has left us without.

There are portions I understood immediately and others that, while a bit fuzzy, I felt a more intuitive connection to without explicitly knowing why or being able to explain how. I think that may have been the authors intention.

This book probably won’t revolutionize your thinking, but it could help you evolve your views on reality itself and how to get more out of it. This shift in thinking could be of great value to those curious folks who want to get closer to truth itself, which is a desire I believe we all share in various degrees.
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Elton Hall
5.0 out of 5 stars Making sense of reality
Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2022
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This volume summarizes in non-technical language Kastrup's position on science, consciousness and reality. HIs lines of reasoning are compelling. While speaking to everyone whether philosopher or not, his thinking is nuanced and demonstrates understanding of other current views. For an introduction to idealism or for a summation of human knowledge today, this book is well worth reading. Highly recommended.
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Paul Keogh Amripur Consulting P/L
5.0 out of 5 stars Koans for the western mind
Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2021
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I’ve been reading Kastrup’s writings and listening to him speak for a year now and feel Science Ideated is the most accessible and exciting exploration of the mindscape of Analytic Idealism I’ve come across. What’s especially challenging and energising is how Kastrup used the very essence of western culture ie reasoning and logic, to unlock the rigid mindset of materialism to reveal an idealist’s heart. Thoroughly enjoyed this book, which has profoundly inspires me in my own research and work to use self-reflexive consciousness as meta-cognitive tool for exploring reality.
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Sam Torode
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the most important philosophers of our time, at his best
Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2022
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I've read several books by Bernardo Kastrup, and this may be the clearest & most concise. Important and highly recommended!
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3.0 out of 5 stars Enlightening
Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2022
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Clear, concepts of reality pushing the limits of our imagination. His ideas are difficult because they conflict with what we experience. But mind expanding that now I've completed the book I will have to go back and read it with my stretched sense of reality.
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Joseph Sao-Bras
5.0 out of 5 stars Overall impression
Reviewed in Canada on October 13, 2021
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A must on the domain of contemporary philosophy. However, it is advisable to read first all the books that Kastrup has published so far, because this latest book culminates a already long thematic line of thought.
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Vyavaharik
5.0 out of 5 stars No one is denying the observed phenomenon.
Reviewed in India on June 4, 2023
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This is a correction phase for humanity and we need someone like Bernardo to address the scientific or rather consciousness denying community. You don't have to throw away the discoveries and invention. Just start with the experience first, and honestly look. Heart-felt gratitude to the author for expressing. For readers, please go slow and don't imagine. Look for yourself live and now.
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5.0 out of 5 stars No one is denying the observed phenomenon.
Reviewed in India on June 4, 2023
This is a correction phase for humanity and we need someone like Bernardo to address the scientific or rather consciousness denying community. You don't have to throw away the discoveries and invention. Just start with the experience first, and honestly look. Heart-felt gratitude to the author for expressing. For readers, please go slow and don't imagine. Look for yourself live and now.
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Arnoud
4.0 out of 5 stars Zeker lezenswaardig
Reviewed in the Netherlands on August 4, 2022
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De theorie van Kastrupp is boeiend en inzichtgevend. Hij rekent af met materialsme en dualisme op een elegante manier. Zeker interessant en boeiend voor een ieder die geinteresseerd is in ontologie. Minpunt is de herhalende manier waarop hij zich negatief uitlaat (op de persoon) over collega wetenschappers
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Dr. Lance St John Butler
5.0 out of 5 stars A marvellous new philosophy for our time
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 4, 2022
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Bernardo Kastrup is the most adventurous philosopher of our time and the most sensible. Thinking people have been aware for decades that there is something wrong with our current default philosophy of Scientific Materialism and here at last is Kastrup with a clear new approach that knocks it off its falsely-solid pedestal.

So far from it being true that 'everything is matter', we have known since the arrival on the scene of Quantum Physics a century ago that matter isn't what it was once thought to be. In addition Relativity turns out not to be compatible with Quantum theory and, for good measure, nobody has produced an explanation of the emergence of consciousness (ideas, mind) from 'matter'.

Kastrup has written nine short books working out a better world-view - essentially an Idealism based on the primacy of consciousness - and here in his tenth, Science Ideated, we have a highly-accessible series of short essays bringing together all his arguments under one cover. The book is comprehensible, convincing and refreshing. Kastrup is very good at philosophy without being a professional philosopher; he is frighteningly intelligent and has a good sense of humour. He makes the world seem an altogether less grim place by showing that our minds, thoughts and ideas aren't just by-products of a meat-brain but are themselves primordial, creative and the place where we really exist. He opens a space for all manner of hopeful things after our long centuries of denial that we are anything more than meaningless machines.
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Robert OConnor
5.0 out of 5 stars Really good world view altering read.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 1, 2021
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Ive bought all of Bernardos books. Theyre the best, most detailed, credible and rigorous books you can buy on the topic of idealism (That consciousness is primary not physical stuff). The thinking and level of arguments and the conclusions drawn from them cannot be denied. I think in the far future a new paradigm will emerge in scientific thinking and Bernardo Kastrup will be remembered as one of its pioneers! Im pretty sure of it. Great book as always from Bernardo. Wirth reading "Why Materialism is Baloney" first though.
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