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Materialism is Complete Nonsense
Within Reason #128 — Alex O’Connor presses Bernardo Kastrup on analytic idealism, why materialism fails, and what it means for personhood and the self.
Video pieces — original essays and curated finds.
Within Reason #128 — Alex O’Connor presses Bernardo Kastrup on analytic idealism, why materialism fails, and what it means for personhood and the self.
The inventor of the microprocessor on idealism from both a technical and a deeply personal angle — consciousness, free will, and what a body is for.
Spira’s SAND 2015 talk — consciousness as that in which all experience appears, by which it is known, and out of which it is made.
Hoffman’s TED talk on the interface theory of perception — evolution shapes icons for fitness, not a window onto reality as it is.
A clear Vedanta framing of the Hard Problem — awareness as the light in which mind and world appear, not a late product of them.
Michael Levin on living systems, machines, and cooperative biological intelligence, in a long-form talk.
Cameron Berg presents approaches to measuring machine consciousness, in a talk from Michael Levin’s series.
Michael Levin on communicating with unconventional biological minds, beyond standard neuron models. Dense systems biology.
Michael Levin talks with Andrey Vyshedskiy about the evolution of language and brain development.
Lakota elder Tiokasin Ghosthorse on intuitive intelligence — listening beyond the colonial mind toward Earth-centered ways of knowing.
Swami Sarvapriyananda, Murray Shanahan, and colleagues on AI, consciousness claims, and dharma ethics.
Alex O’Connor hosts an introduction to Madhyamaka, the Buddhist teaching on emptiness.