Why Materialism Is Baloney
How True Skeptics Know There Is No Death and Fathom Answers to Life, the Universe, and Everything
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Narrated by:
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Stephen Graybill
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By:
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Bernardo Kastrup
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The present framing of the cultural debate in terms of materialism versus religion has allowed materialism to go unchallenged as the only rationally viable metaphysics. This book seeks to change this. It uncovers the absurd implications of materialism and then, uniquely, presents a hard-nosed non-materialist metaphysics substantiated by skepticism, hard empirical evidence, and clear logical argumentation. It lays out a coherent framework upon which one can interpret and make sense of every natural phenomenon and physical law, as well as the modalities of human consciousness, without materialist assumptions.
According to this framework, the brain is merely the image of a self-localization process of mind, analogously to how a whirlpool is the image of a self-localization process of water. The brain doesn't generate mind in the same way that a whirlpool doesn't generate water. It is the brain that is in mind, not mind in the brain. Physical death is merely a de-clenching of awareness. The book closes with a series of educated speculations regarding the afterlife, psychic phenomena, and other related subjects.
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- David Float
- 17-12-22
A much-needed metaphisical corrective
The world around us is made of 'stuff', from which arises our consciousness? Pretty obvious, right? Kastrup engagingly takes us through the reasons why this makes no sense at all, and posits a compelling alternative ontology that leads to some remarkable corollaries.
If the world, and your being in it, just doesn't make sense somehow, read this book, and breathe a sigh of deep recognition.
The thesis is complex and deep, but owing to the authors excellent style, and the excellent narration, can easily.be followed by the interested amateur, even in audiobook form.
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- Mrs. I P. Sowden
- 27-12-22
Couldn't understand his snearing arguments.
Bernardo must have a history of rows with scientists that he cannot forgive. Misleading Science.
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