Science Ideated

By Bernardo Kastrup,

Book cover of Science Ideated: The Fall of Matter and the Contours of the Next Mainstream Scientific Worldview

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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…

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I love this book because it shows that consciousness is the fundamental reality. It’s a very readable guide to the scientific discoveries that (paradoxically) will force science to reconsider its materialistic worldview. Laboratory results in quantum mechanics reveal that there is no “objective world” out there. Brain imaging studies in neuroscience indicate that consciousness is not “manufactured” by the brain.

In fact, consciousness expands when brain centers responsible for our sense of self are inhibited. And the ultimate consciousness expansion appears to take place at death as brain function ceases entirely, according to the growing number of people revived after…

Bernardo Kastrup has PhDs in Computer Engineering and Philosophy, and has worked for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and Philips Research Laboratories. He’s today’s leading proponent of Idealism—the philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson, among others—which asserts that consciousness is the fundamental reality. 

I’ve read nearly all of Kastrup’s books, and found them difficult but rewarding. His most accessible work is this collection of essays (originally published in Scientific American and elsewhere), Science Ideated. 

Reading Kastrup can literally turn your worldview inside out, inducing a sort of mental vertigo. I’ve often had to set down a Kastrup book because…

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