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Brilliant book - extremely effective metaphors - the work adds of the brilliant alcohol! We require more to the thinkers and the communicators likes him!

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Has researched an alcohol/of question of consciousness of organism for 10 years - originally academically, but in recent time, fervently under a poster of the personal investigation. While of course Kastrup the philosophical place is not new and is always be around in some form inside a sooner of civilisation (Upanishads any one?), His hinge and unpacking of one querella against the climate of metaphysical materialism, which has dominated of a 17th century, is perhaps unparalleled in contemporary philosophy. I have looked for the book like this for some time.

An importance of this book is in an accessibility and delivery of ideas, argues and counterarguments therein. While WMIB is written like the popular reader, has a lot of writings of academic books for contemporary philosophers that does not rid like this clear an overview of a place and a precision of reason for reason would owe that take idealism more seriously that any one another place in a table. Kastrup Is the welcome and a lot, a lot crucially the thinker required in modern time, that belongs to the panteón of thinkers that in fact 'took the' among Adi Shankara the Berkley.

While Adi Shankara was the contemplative, his Vedanta the name has required is also the intellectual adds, exerting swimming but reason and surgical logic to triumph in all his debates (dharma fight). And like this, while there is a lot of reservation in any one-duality(monistic idealism) available for contemplative signalling was, there is little east unfolds a necessary intellectual frame to really take or appreciate a place. There is less still, if any that am conscious, this directs a vital bastion and sprains of contemporary materialism that it is like this against critical reasoning, and in fact, true scepticism.

Kastrup, In full recognition of an academic and cultural landscape, shows with confidence and only precision of discernment because materialism, when being one established incumplimiento dipped of reason and scepticism, is at all careers of delusional. A mass unexamined delusion and the system of faith has institutionalised, where scientific die obviously signalling to the idealism is refused and contorted reason does not return to the system of faith has said.

Games to lose to this, likes philosopher of alcohol, Keith Frankish dips it; any consciousness is an illusion or physicalism/the materialism is dud. Like this entrenched is materialism that Frankish takes the orthodoxy and is like this a 'illusionist'. A club whose members are Daniel Dennett, Nicholas Humphrey, Susan Blackmore and a Churchlands to appoint but the little. Ossia A place established of esason' when it comes the consciousness.

Frankish: Soyay Ask the question, please? It has not been that thinks in physicalism, but suppose has had to refuse any (a) yours faith that has experiences with phenomenal properties (in a sense regulates) or (b) physicalism. Which choose? (I thinks expensive this election.)'

For Frankish and some other members of a club, a loss of physicalism/the materialism is the 'the prize is too big' and for this the consciousness has to that be an illusion . A taster of Frankish dipped of illusionist, where I reference Kastrup in mine rebutting commentary, can be found here:

A current zeitgeist of Illusionism ( has to that be an illusionist to be the materialist) says that the experiences can not have held qualitative that it is ineffable, intrinsic, private, and there is prendido immediately.

Frankish Elaborate:
…'qualia is supposition to be things to the like subjects to experience actuate unmediated access. But so only I do not see like the physical system could have unmediated access the characteristic of a physical world. It touches like magic. Like this neither qualia (and perhaps subject) is not physical or is an illusion . Of the physicalist perspective, a hard question is not so only hard, but impossible.'

Materialists Admits that your private experience to read this a lot of description, a private access to some thoughts that arises in reply his, is not possible down materialism. Any materialism or an immediate evidence of your private subjective experience has to that be for a rib. Supposition like a faithful chooses.

With such has thought garbled that careers a gamut in our education, culture, sciences, half comunicacionales and like this on - like this Adi Shankara his time - the thinker for real to to critic likes Kastrup is of essential our time to once again dipped a right record and expose a veneer of the rationality has accepted to be that for real it is; abhorrently irrational.

WMIB Require to be read of all the one who are invested in of the such existential questions, personally and professionally. It would be the good accompaniment to an established syllabus literature on idealism, giving the clearest access, with modern refinement, to an often comprised idealist bad philosophers that has gone before. With the title like such this in spite of, would be seen like this heresy in modern academy. WMIB Is a perfect response gives to Samuel Johnson.

Kastrup The idealism is the idealism fully @@give , fleshed was for a modern age, immediate fact and that objective that it is materialism that is an abstract and untenable.

The one who another means another that consciousness, the materialist have a self-evident access, deprived to his/his concepts that the consciousness has to that be an illusion ?

Require to to thinkers like Kastrup.

A 19th C idealistic philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer has affirmed once that a touchstone for any philosophy any one east his compatibility with mysticism. If this assertion is to be believed then Gentleman Kastrup has done the wonderful service to produce the philosophical account of idealism that harmonises well with some two main ideas of mysticism, specifically 1) a world is not that thinks that is and 2) is not the one who/that thinks that is. I peel thorough dismantling of a current materialistic paradigm, the paradigm the one who looks to have it strangle taking scientific very current thought and society in big, Gentleman Kastrup clears a way for an ontological idealism that harmonises well with our intuitive experience of a world, as well as accounting for the a lot of wider row of observations 'anomalous', of ESP, near of-experiences of death, psychedelic experiences to a character of consciousness he, all desquels at present is trying be intractable of the strictly materialistic perspective. An aim of a book, as elucidated for Gentleman Kastrup, is to aim this soyuch that is to say to believe is based in unexamined and unjustified suppositions and sprains, some of them preposterous' and to offer 'some healthy and simple alternative, to all available evidence and your personal experience of reality.' Any modest aim; but Gentleman Kastrup look for to be to to drive worthy likes navigates in the by means of of some a lot abstruse concepts in fact; and it does like this in the way that is both accessible and involving.

What follows it is drives of brief rodeo of some chapters of a book. Do fault like the general outline, to help taking feels it '' for some ideas and the concepts have explored inside a book, and in no way would owe that be taken like this of the substitutes for some sophisticated, scholars and nuanced the querelle has presented of Gentleman Kastrup he.

Understand 1 graduate 'A Current Worldview and his Implications'

Gentleman Kastrup emphasises an importance that one is worldview can have on like one directs one is life , some elections some frames and some appearances of life a like this considers of entity and worthy of attention. He laments that a worldview has adopted of society, influencing people 'by means of education, some means comunicacionales, and some global cultural zeitgeist', is that of materialism. It writes:

'... There is the powerful core worldview that subtly pervades a deep plus, often ubconscious' levels of our alcohols, finally that determines that for real feel roughly and reality. This core worldview is materialism.' (p 8)

Continue in still remark like a materialistic worldview is resulted the mechanism for social validation, mainly by means of his adoption for an intellectual elite, in that cause for aforar the ours faiths and opinions for reference to a point of view of consensus of this reigning elite. On-represented among this intellectual elite is scientific and Gentleman Kastrup excoriates these scientists that, by means of the 'dangerous combination of ignorance and hubris', believes escience so only can substitute philosophy'. It writes:

' has failed to see that a capacity to predict like things behave with respecting to an another says little in those things fundamentally are.' (p 12)

After the brief discussion of just that is to mean for materialism i.et. This esality exists out of your alcohol in a form of assemblies of the material particles that occupies a frame of spatial and time', Gentleman Kastrup then continuous in to develop one of some more intractable questions of a materialistic paradigm, specifically 'the hard question of consciousness', and the one who tentativas to reconcile materialism with a 'question lasted goodness the such unsatisfactory solutions as 'animism/panpsychism'. Also, materialistic to the neuroscience gives increase to an idea that all experience is the 'brain the 'hallucination' generated analogous in almost each way to the sleep.' Kastrup Writing:
second materialism, quell'experience in our lives every day is not reality like such, but the class of brain-'copy' built of outside, esal mondó of the materialism is purportedly an amorphous, colourless, oderless, dance without his , tasteless of abstract electromagnetic fields devoid of all the qualities of experience. It is purportedly more resembled the mathematical equation that the anything concrete.' (p 21)

Can trust such one hallucination? Echoing Kant, Gentleman Kastrup affirms...

'... There is no strong reason to think that one 'copy 'of calm reality and I purportedly alive comes to close included to that is really that goes in. Like this, an implication of materialism is that we are limited intrinsically to look a version modified and biased of a film is looking for to have sense of. Still, we derive materialism totally of this a lot of film!' (p 23)

For this Gentleman Kastrup concludes that that the materialism is not one 'intuitive and self-evident worldview' looks to be. But 'before we can launch it it was materialism , require the coherent alternative to explain empirical reality.' A rest of a book is Gentleman Kastrup tentativa to do so only concealed.

Understand 2 graduate 'facing an Alcohol-Question of organism'.

After the brief overview of contemporary neuroscience and some evident correlations among states of alcohols and states of brain, Gentleman Kastrup elucidates a orthodox materialistic tentativas to explain (explains era?) Consciousness and an alcohol-question of organism. Finding a materialistic hypothesis to be unsuitable he proffers his own hypothesis to posit consciousness to be one 'ontological primitive', which is to say, 'an irreducible appearance of character that can a lot of he be explained but must, instead, be indorsement to exist'. Referencing Investigations that as it looks indicates concealed 'any physical phenomenon can be explained for separate of, or independently of, his subjective apprehension in Ladies of consciousness Kastrup logically concludes of such investigation concealed 'the consciousness can not be reduced to import - the stops looks that it is required to import to exist in a first place.'

If the consciousness is fundamental the can not be a chance that a brain 'generate' consciousness; enough, a brain the soyodulator' and 'localizer' of consciousness, restricting conscious perception to the concrete alcohol-organism of organism with the compatible 'filtering out of consciousness anything concealed is not correlated with the perspective of an organism.' Gentleman Kastrup then uses this 'hypothesis of filter' to do sure forecasts and resupplies the substantial organism of empirical evidence in support of this hypothesis.

Understand 3 titles soyind likes Mesos of Reality'

For these readers that come to this subject for a first time, conditioned for and enmeshed inside the materialistic worldview, this chapter can try be the significant hurdle like Gentleman Kastrup outlines for a reader some implications of a metaphysic of 'Idealism', which defines like esality consists exclusively of alcohol and his happy'. Ossia In contradistinction to esalism' that is an idea that esality exists external and independent of alcohol.' If that the idealism looks illogical and absurd is simply reason ' is so only very used his.' In spite of one 'intuitive appeal of materialism' build of must of the philosophy to the foundation of the certainty and an only certainty have, dispute Kastrup, is 'right under our nose: experience he. Postulating An integer hadow' universe the external experience is so only justifiable can does not note of reality without him.' It writes:

'All the materialist ideas roughly the character and the reality are produced of alcohol and exist so only in alcohol. All the things that is believed to exist external and independently of alcohol - your organism and brain included - the this, as the one who can any never know sure, images in, and abstractions of, alcohols.' (p 53)

Gentleman Kastrup build it querella to oblige for idealism to examine some implications keys, an empirical evidence and support, as well as some logical implications of idealism. This will be the difficult chapter for a lot, but an endeavour has invested will be more than winner in of the subsequent chapters.

Understand 4 graduate 'A Brain like the Knot of Import'

in this Gentleman of chapter Kastrup the insiemi was paralizaciones to reconcile a philosophy of idealism with one 'hypothesis of filter' of chapter 2. As with all the metaphors, a model of filter has limitations, some main a when being, 'if a brain there is in alcohol, as it can the filters concealed that it gives it his a lot of existence?' In a tentativa to win this limitation, Gentleman Kastrup invokes the furthest metaphor of the whirlpool. So that he whirlpool locate water in the current, this in spite of all a time that remain like this waters, analogously a brain is localization to import whilst remaining alcohol. 'In place of magically generating alcohol, a brain simply is a partial image of alcohol in a process of self-localizing.' And, so that he whirlpool is not to separate of a current, as 'the organism - so much part of a universe and, like this, also the contained of alcohol - is not to separate of an alcohol in big.' A whirlpool the metaphor also can be extended the account for a fact that experience a same world:

'As whirlpool metaphor, that usually thinks of as 'external world' is global undulations propagating by means of a current a wide plus of alcohol, which penetrate our respective whirlpools by means of some gone in-the points call our reason of look to note to share a same reality is that these undulations, like the waves that extends in of the multiple directions, penetrates multiple whirlpools at the same time, that injects a same - or alike - information to the each one which of them.' (p 96)

Gentleman Kastrup, that @gives that 'ingrained in our materialism of has thought is resulted' enjoins a reader, to an end of this chapter, to reflect deeply in some consequences of some idealistaes metaphysic. While recognising a shortcomings in a whirlpool metaphor, Gentleman Kastrup feels sure concealed 'the intuitive appeal of materialism is based in the class of perverse intellectual game to fly-and-transmission: our culture mistakenly attributes to materialism a intuitiveness of idealism, while attributing to idealism an absurdity of materialism. It goes figure.'

Understand 5 graduate 'A Mercurial Metaphor'

Gentleman Kastrup opens this chapter to underline the weakness in a whirlpool metaphor, specifically, '...If all the reality is the together of the experiences that flow in a an alcohol, reason a localized points-of-goes to correspond to the each one whirlpool 'forget' all out of his respective whirlpools?...Of then all the experiences are in an and a same alcohol, a whirlpool metaphor entails that have to that everything, in principle, has the form of extrasensory perception - qualitatively different of perception by means of some organs of senses - of all the experiences that flow in a current a wide plus.' A question, succinctly place, is 'As pode a character' psyche - simply he localized point-of-view of a half width of alcohol - result second looks disconnected form other experiences that unfolds in an a lot of the alcohol is pert of?' This question is one jumping was point of Gentleman Kastrup speculations in a character of self-reflective egoic awareness, some personnel and community unconscious and a character by heart. It would be blamed of the injustice adds has tried encapsulate in the few words a reasoning to oblige and argue Gentleman Kastrup uses in the support of his speculations is against a lot of orthodox has thought, any one less desquels is his ideas regarding a character of a unconscious; it suffices to say, Gentleman Kastrup informs to the number of empirical experiences in support of his claims as well as presenting a reader to some interesting speculations regarding a character of 'truth'.

Understand 6 graduate 'A Metaphor of Oscillating Membrane.'

A methodology employed for Gentleman Kastrup, tries to communicate his ideas, is by means of the process of never of metaphors more sophisticated that build, one to another, to the self-sustaining and coherent structure. Gentleman Kastrup writing:

'Any metaphor that looks for to resupply images in of the terms duquel one could do the sense of alcohol and reality has to that have quite a lot of terracings of liberty to take all this rich metaphor for alcohol and reality would owe that be able to fully take some models and regularities of character like this at present comprised for physics.' (p 132)

For 'have quite a lot of terracings of liberty' this chapter presents an idea of 'vibrations' interacting with one 'elastic membrane'. Gentleman Kastrup writing:

'... We require to imagine a half of alcohol to the equal that to membrane with more than two dimensions that vibrates besides three dimensions of spatial. So only then it can take quite a lot of terracings of liberty to represent everything of human experience.' (p 139)

Is that it vibrates the metaphor of elastic membrane has the habit to speak the one who ego form and 'access of profit to the shared, community, apparently external reality.'

Ossia A chapter a plus along and more difficult that a book. A shot adds of the earth is spent , the old subjects are revisited - like this some communities unconscious and a model of filter of paradoxes that the consciousness of look is solved and subject as it wins free and ego to the transcendence spoken.

Understand 7 graduate is-interpreting Reality'

Gentleman Kastrup applies a world-wide-dress of the ontological idealism to the such worries likes them to them the history and of the cosmological origins...

' All the reality is in an alcohol, he still felt to mark to speak of the cosmological past and it Big Bang?' (p 171)

...The possible character of a soul and life with which dead...

'If an organism is a procedural image of consciousness localization, then when this process for an image would owe that disappear, so only like an organism does not disappear instantly, like a whirlpool done. Reason?' (p 177)

... It declares no normal of consciousness...

'Can somehow changes our psychic structures like this less than the reality is filtered was? It can somehow partially and temporarily of- it locates to our consciousness for transcend time and normal spatial constraints?' (p 180)

...Ghosts and apparitions...

'Down a worldview developed in this book, such the conception of ghosts is difficult - at all possible - to sustain.' (Speaking here of 'the almost physical establishments that it can interact he with @@subject.') (p 185)

... Parallel reality...

'Is like this conceivable that there is ego able beings whose psychic structures are like this different of the ours that any model of the vibration of a wider membrane could resonate with his and our psychic all practical purposes, these beings would not occupy some same spatial-time that we do. Sure enough, we would be to live in of the parallel realities.' (p 188)

The section The scarce is poured in a second looks a lot of-materialistic perspective of traditional cultures. Aldous Huxley, In Apêndice II of his Heaven and Hell, has outlined his faith that nutritious lacks in of the such cultures, with the loaded affects on chemist of brain, the most susceptible the 'visions' and soyaterial' flowing the consciousness of 'there', in Alcohol-in-big. Similarly, Gentleman Kastrup invokes this idea like an explanation to the equal that to reason the societies of base of traditional villages and of the whole cultures in of the faiths 'this has has not had never basic a lot empirical on reality.'

Has extracted adds of speculation in this chapter, likes Gentleman Kastrup admits, and can imagine there will be a lot of the one who takes @@subject with his suppositions; notwithstanding, can not be denied that Gentleman Kastrup dips advances his argue in the clear, cogent, rational and logical way and faces potential objections his tended forward.

Understand 8 graduate 'Final Musings'

A final chapter is an overview , rodeo, and the class of 'personal critic of a rest of a book.' Revisiting Some of some main concepts, Gentleman Kastrup tentativas to aim like a worldview of the ontological idealism eslates to a been present of our culture.' For chance, while recognising to his utility likes one 'easy plus-to-digest metaphor for truth of idealist', Gentleman Kastrup laments a fact that that the duality of substance is a 'so only mainstream alternative' to materialism, writing:

soyatter and that the soul is view to be different types and separated of tuff', irreducible to a polarisation of a metaphysical debate among the materialism and that the duality of substance is the cultural victory for materialism.'

To outline 'correspondences' sure among duality of substance and idealism, Gentleman Kastrup considers it 'so only to use dualist metaphors when a tongue in a fundamental character of reality and human the strong sense, work of things as if the people have has had souls, separated of an organism and a rest of a world, which has survived dead physical.'

But so only that it is this survives dead physics according to this model of ontological idealism? Here Gentleman Kastrup does the distinction that separates a ego of a esense of 'I' this underlies everything of our experiences.' A ego is the collection of memories, experiences, desires, annexes, feelings etc which all do fault to build the narrative call soye'; while a 'I', a witness of this narrative, is 'distributed during a membrane and is intrinsic to experience' except mistakenly believes to be a ego, a history of alcohol has called created eselfo'. This 'I', this inner awareness, this sense of ' TOUCHED before it contracts and the results have identified with a history of elf', is 'totally undifferentiated and identical in the each one undressed, in of the skins, 'amorphous I' is intrinsic to a membrane of alcohol in big, a subject only of here is a point key: a metaphysics developed in this book involves that there is a uninterrupted isolation of one 'amorphous I' during a call of process has died.' Gentleman Kastrup writing:

'Left there be any ambiguity here: it is the direct and unavoidable implication of mine worldview that yours consciousness - yours subjective experience to be, now included - will survive your bodily dead.' (p 201)

then moves on to direct intuitions and materialist suppositions and the one who materialists, like the consequence of such suppositions, behind the to the metaphysical cul-de-sac, forced by his loyalty to materialism to draw some quite absurd conclusions in a character of an alcohol and reality.

Gentleman Kastrup in brief explores a possibility of his when being the universal telos, the glorious purpose, behind existence, first to conclude this chapter with the few commentaries of closes regarding an inevitability to invoke metaphorical tongue to help think in a character of reality. Gentleman Kastrup recognises some limitations of his own metaphors in his tentativas to elucidate a worldview of ontological realism, but concludes:

'Quell'I believes is that a worldview contested here is the cement and does not advance of the his when compared to a reigning paradigm. Like appearance have showed, explains all the appearances of realities that demand of materialism to explain, and then a lot be sincere: a fairytale of the materialism has to do fault the valid purpose during the plus naive and childish age, but there is now far outlived his utility.' (p 214 - 215)

Final Thoughts

Like this far behind liking 1912 Bertrand Russell has written in Some Questions of Philosophy: '...The common sense I leaves entirely in some dark to the equal that to a true intrinsic character of physical objects, and has had good reason to consider them like this mental, could a lot legitimately refuse this opinion simply reason attacks like this odd. A truth in physical objects has to that be odd.'

Gentleman Kastrup has added his only voice to a big (and a lot that grows never) heart of voice extolling a rationale of ontological idealism. His book is written in the slang-free, easy and accessible way. This in spite of, for these unfamiliar with idealism, many some chapters can require revisiting the little first time of sure concepts results clear. His book is the contributo welcome to an already extended library of the books that extracted this @@subject and has each claim to be considered among a better of them. 'Reason that the materialism is Baloney' also do fault like the good introduction the most abstruse works that extracted a philosophy of idealism, like this Schopenhauer is notoriously difficult 'A World-wide as and Representaion' of a Western philosophical tradition, as well as less familiar Oriental traditions of idealism that Advaita Vedanta belonging to a Hindu tradition, also some Buddhist schools of Madhyamika and Yogacara, which all active a lot to say regarding a state of reality of a world.

Ossia The book that deserves the wide readers. Mina a fear is that that would benefit one the majority of still the read (i.et. Radicals materialists) will give it the width berth, any one less because of an approval of coverage of the front for Deepak Chopra, the man so that a materialist community radical resists such the vehement animus that any book that resists his name is returned for any one another allocates that that of the a lot of ol' fashioned the book that burns. Ossia The shame . My hope is that a lot of materialists will read this book and hopefully the free pause of a narrow, circumscribed, constricted, and finally constricting, worldview of materialism. Thank you Ladies Kastrup for your contributo substantial to a realisation of this hope.

Bernardo Kastrup is the very special man, with the for real beautiful alcohol.

That a lot , comprising Bernardo Kastrup, obviously, has spent a lot of my life that looks for to exit that one this word (life) is everything roughly. Now, so only I go to allege this book resupplies an alone response to a question of life (this in spite of in the sure sense, the wide fact :), but that will allege is that it dips a reader firmly in a right clue. That? To offer the thoroughly convincing, mature explanation , rational of reality, for this helping a to see where one can returned to a big picture. More in this down. For now so only I want to remark that, as I have read one that underlines book almost each sentence - I has begun to feel vary it relieving of one uploads in my shoulders; it is result lighter. This feeling is arisen thoughts like these: 'Oh, like the life Is of entity and lovely after all… Is not of the just cars… an accumulation of the material wealth Is not a main aim of life… the artistic expression Is the vital part of human being.' And on, and on. In short, all all know deep down in our hearts to be some in fact THESE TRUE, and a soul-crushing materialism (and all he entails) that has been force -fed is in fact BS.

So much, as you have read this book - unless you choose to read he with the like this closed alcohol that you wilfully calm concluded out of his message - will find you some few words ringing true with your soul. In fact, has read dozens of books on entirely of the things that relates to spirituality, truth, consciousness, science, philosophy, etc, etc, and with ridding in the heart can say that ossia hands -down a More adds them. It is the contemporary masterpiece. Gentleman Kastrup sublimely spend his own wonderful ideas together with all some better truth of idealism, nonduality, Jungian psychology, groundbreaking, real science, and more, weaving all hover and building the coherent frame of reality. A reader is presented like this with the BIG PICTURE that mark the phenomenal quantity of sense. And ossia reason has said on that a book situates a reader in a right clue: maintaining know quite that is going in. We are no longer stumbling around in a darkness. Maintaining can locate with our lives in a true human alcohol - an alcohol of alcohol-in-big/God that I we self-evident, concealed Is. It likes Trace ' with our lives' is until each one of knots, of course. For me, the credibility has been given to a better of a nonduality professors, comprising Ramana Maharshi, Sri Nisargadatta, and Rupert Espira, and am enjoying in his student. Also, the exploitation of sleep is resulted the fundamental and driving part of my life. And more...

One has thought: I can not believe they are spent my whole life that believes in an existence of the world-wide external consciousness. Really it is more absurd that that believes in an in Voladores Espaguetis Monster. It is a law of blind faith. This in spite of like this are all has conditioned for the believe to good sure. But… calm once undertake a thin turn in perspective, calm @of which a truth has been staring calm in an expensive all to the long of: it concealed everything, comprising your own organism and brain, is IN CONSCIOUSNESS. An idea that a death of an organism entails an end of the existence now results entirely absurd. A now feels very promoted to direct a lot so on amassing pointless physical objects like this on evolving a state of one this consciousness.

In short, can not recommend this book highly enough. And they are at present, blissfully, that does my way by means of Gentleman Kastrup book later, 'Write Peeks Further,' in that develops a lot of his ideas in new and fascinating ways. I am enjoying these tests so many that does not love him to finalise. But ossia another history ...

Are so only to Chapter 2 like this far, but that asks if to continue. While my own experience leave to love this book to be I well follows that it tries to read the critically - does not have any point in just reading he for agreement 'cos already is that __ it thinks!

Understand 1 p17: dispute that joins 'held of subjective experience ... It would owe that be deductible of a mass, moment, transfer, load, or another property of the subatomic particles that bounces around in a brain' so only like a form of sand ripples is deductible of some properties of grains of sand and wind. Surely it is not comparing likes with liking: in of the terms that could be it described as 'of the emergent properties of discharges of systems-of-systems' (p. p.ej. Goat And To the) an example of sand relates more the 'adjacent discharges', while an example of brain would look to be a lot of a lot of levels of abstraction averts.

Understand 2: p34: it is speaking in Experiences of Next death, and the ones of entities ( especifically') querella against materialists is that they require some the underlying neural activity in an apparently brain 'died' for NDE to arrive. But there is no real evidence of this brain 'died' NDE - examples very known (p. p.ej. Pam Reynolds) Clearly is unable to establish wether a NDE arrives during amnesia or during the period of zero activity of brain has measured. Consistently BK Is elected argues is specious, although materialists was really to contest NDEs in this way.

... I will spend in the bit, and gone back to update this description yes the result has been unfair

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Page 35 now, and BK is speaking Tononi Theory of Integration of the Information (IIT). I think that that it is disingenuous, and the little snide perhaps, when it speaks roughly 'a neural process suddenly results conscious ... Reason he _that suffices_ (BK italics) goodness of integration of the information to ... Consciousness?' In a IIT projected the dress possesses a IIT the axioms are necessary, but no sufficient, for consciousness to arise so that it recognises that IIT is not that resupplying mechanistic explanation of consciousness. But a question for me is that BK surely knows this, he still continuous with his strawman argues deliberately using a word ufficient'

P39: soyaterialism tentativas to reduce conscious experience to physical establishments like these (subatomic) particles. As such, assumes consciousness to be derivative, any one fundamental'. It is this the dud dilemma, with BK looking to ignore an idea of emergent properties of the system. Surely it would be quite a task to predict some held - taste, smell, colour, of the piece of cheese - of the handful of quark, still here is BK framing a materialist pov in this way.

WELL, likes to take that so only the few pages to a book BK is dipping out of some argue of first materialism to go in to a real flesh of his own solutions, but strawmen, persistent misrepresentation... IANAP And no too ready, as as you can possibly trusts any one argues later could do?

MODIFY 2: Like this finally that traces to BK is material 'own', after cutting by means of his misrepresentation of a realistic/materialist place, and are by train of the find really a lot good: it is using analogies, more than direct indicators, but ossia WELL of the part of his thesis is in fact that an organism/of the brain does not have to that be the precise/attentive filter of reality/of alcohol. To arrive to this point thinks that has an empty explanatory at least like this big likes materialists, and am not convinced by his claim to having done was with a hard question. But in a base of for the half a book are upping a description to 3 stars.

MODIFY 3: Finalised a book now. For me there it was at least 3 big idea moments that has moved mine worldview in (I think) the very lovely way. So that it would recommend it. It is the shame some early chapters resupply the strawman takedown of materialism of a late plus some are like this better,

really can not rent this book highly enough. It is one of these few books that really result an influence of entity and he then breakings of your life and could that to him gives ten stars, I .

Kastrup Clearly, eruditely, succinctly, intelligently outlines reason a place of scientific materialism- like this dominant in our scientific establishment and the widest culture- is an emperor without clothes, and no an evidence-based, factual account [grounded deep inside a modern scientific method] of a form of a universe he purports to be. It is sure enough, little more than the metaphysical ideology based in suppositions and pre-conceptions, and one that sure enough the way of the paste on is hanged , to a large extent because of historical reasons.

Kastrup Is dismantling of a Materialist place is not everything there is to enjoy here this in spite of as extracted that in some premiers few chapters with cruel efficiency. A real force of this book is in some chapters where then continuous in to outline like a universe, by means of some machinations of the fundamental element of Alcohol, work and develops and the one who our place like some human beings is inside marvels of this cosmic process. A way he this, by means of metaphor and analogy attentively, clearly builds on layer for discharge, is to add it accomplishment and has helped to clear a lot of mine intellectual own and spiritual' subject immensely.

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