Bernardo Kastrup

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> POURQUOI LE MATÉRIALISME EST ABSURDE, de Bernardo Kastrup - 2023 - Aluna - 365 p. - 24 €. — Notre culture tient pour acquis que nous vivons dans un monde constitué de matière en premier lieu. Ce triomphe du matérialisme opposé aux visions religieuses ne laisse pas de place à une troisième voie. Pourtant notre expérience directe de la réalité nous permet de comprendre que le monde qui nous entoure apparaît d’abord dans notre conscience, comme une sorte de reconstitution de ce qui se trouve vraiment là. Ce livre entend révolutionner notre vision du monde en mettant au jour les implications absurdes du matérialisme, puis en proposant une métaphysique non-matérialiste qui s’appuie sur une approche rationnelle et des preuves empiriques solides, dans un langage clair et accessible. L’auteur nous décrit finalement une réalité dans laquelle la conscience est première et la matière est une forme particulière de celle-ci. Ce modèle d’« idéalisme analytique » ne peut que séduire tous ceux qui ne se satisfont pas de la vision matérialiste désenchantée du monde moderne, et ouvre des perspectives colossales quant au devenir de la conscience après la mort et toutes sortes de phénomènes aujourd’hui incompris.
—3e millénaire, (147), Printemps 2023… (mer)

All of Kastrup's books are brilliantly stimulating, but sometimes he takes his argument the proverbial bridge too far. Such seems to be the case here. As in others of his books, he explores rationalistic approaches trying to heal the dualistic split between mind and matter, here with the overlay (or underlay) of an ontological basis for spirituality. But he tries to take his rationality where rationality should never to, into the precincts of deus (absconditus or not). Rationalizing spirituality can perhaps only be taken so far. Maybe all things are possible with sincere faith in rationality, but in all humility I have my doubts.… (mer)

"You think string theory is unfalsifiable and simply an explanatory theory with predictive power lacking practicability? Hold my beer." That's what I imagine started the author on his quest.

I don't know why the author thinks it's important for us to know his papers were submitted and mostly published in reputable journals. The point of journals is to make dissemination of different ideas possible. It doesn't mean much else. Same reason I read this book till the end. People are curious, they want to learn from other peoples' ideas. The introduction shows some bizarre attitude where the author suggests he somehow fooled the journals into publishing material for his book. What?

It didn't convince me, in fact I'm not sure what exactly the author was trying to convince me of, other than that it's all in my mind and somehow findings of psychology of a particular species of creatures living on an insignificant little blue-green planet are in some way relevant to the nature of the universe. Metaphors can be an explanatory aid, not the definition of an idea.… (mer)