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Kastrup vs. Vervaeke: Idealism vs. Naturalism (Round 1 Debate)
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Kastrup vs. Vervaeke: Idealism vs. Naturalism (Round 1 Debate)

YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWcTmeAs44I Bernardo Kastrup is the preeminent Western philosopher espousing metaphysical idealism, and John Vervaeke is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto focusing on the "meaning crisis" and a 3rd wave cognitive science approach to mindfulness. This is Round 1. Comment below as to what you'd like to see for Round 2. Curt's interview with JV alone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p8o3-7mvQc Curt's interview with BK alone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAB21FAXCDE Patreon for conversations on Theories of Everything, Consciousness, Free Will, and God: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal Help support conversations like this via PayPal: https://bit.ly/2EOR0M4 Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/better-left-unsaid-with-curt-jaimungal/id1521758802 Pandora: https://pdora.co/33b9lfP Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e Discord Invite Code (as of Mar 04 2021): dmGgQ2dRzS Subreddit r/TheoriesOfEverything: https://reddit.com/r/theoriesofeverything LINKS MENTIONED: JV's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/johnvervaeke JV's "Meaning Crisis" series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54l8_ewcOlY&list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ BK's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeDZCa3VrRQvzBlVR-oVVmA THANK YOU: -Phil Chertook (who has graciously served as a mini-Jamie to this TOE video). -Grizwald Grim (a volunteer from the TOE Discord) for the timestamps TIMESTAMPS: 0:00:00 Introduction 0:08:50 Green Room 0:09:43 Context Exposition 0:10:33 Intros 0:12:53 Vervaeke Deep Continuity Rationalist 0:16:18 BK Analytic Idealist - mind as foundation of matter 0:19:14 Emergent Exploration of Emergence 0:22:33 Plausibility construct, trustworthy functional elegance standard 0:26:33 Psychosocial plausibility at the heart of objectivity 0:29:12 Science and Consciousness 0:30:03 Culturally manufactured emergence 0:33:30 Normative pragmatism, lead by plausibility and probability 0:34:56 The Art of Disciplined and Justifiable Plausibility 0:36:02 Scotus and Ockham - Severing from Realism 0:38:44 Incoherent Notion of Being 0:40:48 Relativity, conceptual parsimony, parsimonious postulates & Alien Abduction 0:47:18 Individuating Consciousness 0:51:33 Standard Hume Empiricism 0:52:22 Elegance & Problematic Parsimony - why not be a realist? 0:53:40 Nominal vs Ontic partitioning 0:58:28 Questioning the Experiencer - Precisely Transcendental 1:01:18 Meta-conscious Reflective Attention 1:03:03 Hume's Straw Man 1:04:16 Self, Consciousness & Meta-consciousness 1:06:33 Dissociative Folded Experiential Reflection 1:08:08 What is the Self 1:09:33 Therapy Timeout 1:15:11 Solving the Meaning Crisis 1:17:33 Unbalanced analytic rational conceptual 1:19:17 Idolatry of Nerds 1:26:24 Fluid Compensation for Physicalist Façade 1:28:42 Where we went Wrong - Images that we call the World 1:32:27 Flat Ontologies and the Depth Dimension 1:34:21 The Obviousness of Experience & Fields of Intelligibility 1:36:54 The Normative Longing for the Transcendental Noumenal 1:40:00 Meaning and Ontology 1:44:40 Meta-meaning Worldview & The Bouncer of the Heart 1:51:05 How do you define what exists - how can we know what's real? 1:56:44 Drinking from the Fount of Intelligibility 1:58:29 Behind the Scenes 2:01:33 Where do you Disagree the Most? 2:04:33 Real Field Harmonics 2:06:11 Grounding Monism & Spinoza Modes 2:15:01 Observation Beyond Dissociative Boundaries 2:16:16 The Space/Time Framework of Language 2:18:02 New Age Disavowal 2:19:13 Difference In Kind, Dissociations of Mind 2:24:20 Emergence and the Degree/Kind Threshold 2:26:37 Inducing Dissociation in the Universal Mind 2:30:33 Meta-consciousness and Reportability 2:34:40 Jung and Meta-consciousness 2:38:00 Metacognition and Dissociation 2:43:22 Beyond the Boundary of our Own Dissociation 2:45:55 Mental, and of Dissociative Character

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal · Theories of Everything

May 1, 20213h 51m

Show Notes

Bernardo Kastrup and John Vervaeke debate metaphysical idealism versus naturalism and the meaning crisis They probe the nature of consciousness, the relationship between mind and matter, and the limits of naturalistic explanations.

- 0:00:00 - Introduction
- 0:08:50 - Green Room
- 0:09:43 - Context Exposition
- 0:10:33 - Intros
- 0:12:53 - Vervaeke Deep Continuity Rationalist
- 0:16:18 - BK Analytic Idealist
- 0:19:14 - Emergent Exploration
- 0:22:33 - Plausibility Construct
- 0:26:33 - Psychosocial Plausibility
- 0:29:12 - Science and Consciousness
- 0:30:03 - Culturally Manufactured Emergence
- 0:33:30 - Normative Pragmatism
- 0:34:56 - Disciplined Plausibility
- 0:36:02 - Scotus and Ockham
- 0:38:44 - Incoherent Notion of Being
- 0:40:48 - Relativity and Alien Abduction
- 0:47:18 - Individuating Consciousness
- 0:51:33 - Standard Hume Empiricism
- 0:52:22 - Elegance vs Realism
- 0:53:40 - Nominal vs Ontic Partitioning
- 0:58:28 - Questioning the Experiencer
- 1:01:18 - Meta‑conscious Reflective Attention
- 1:03:03 - Hume's Straw Man
- 1:04:16 - Self and Meta‑consciousness
- 1:06:33 - Dissociative Folded Reflection
- 1:08:08 - What is the Self
- 1:09:33 - Therapy Timeout
- 1:15:11 - Solving the Meaning Crisis
- 1:17:33 - Unbalanced Analytic Rationality
- 1:19:17 - Idolatry of Nerds
- 1:26:24 - Fluid Compensation for Physicalist Facade
- 1:28:42 - Wrong Images of the World
- 1:32:27 - Flat Ontologies and Depth Dimension
- 1:34:21 - Obviousness of Experience
- 1:36:54 - Normative Longing for Transcendental Noumenal
- 1:40:00 - Meaning and Ontology
- 1:44:40 - Meta‑meaning Worldview
- 1:51:05 - Defining Existence
- 1:56:44 - Drinking from Fount of Intelligibility
- 1:58:29 - Behind the Scenes
- 2:01:33 - Where Do You Disagree Most?
- 2:04:33 - Real Field Harmonics
- 2:06:11 - Grounding Monism & Spinoza Modes
- 2:15:01 - Observation Beyond Dissociation
- 2:16:16 - Space/Time Framework of Language
- 2:18:02 - New Age Disavowal
- 2:19:13 - Difference In Kind
- 2:24:20 - Emergence Threshold
- 2:26:37 - Inducing Dissociation in Universal Mind
- 2:30:33 - Meta‑consciousness Reportability
- 2:34:40 - Jung and Meta‑consciousness
- 2:38:00 - Metacognition and Dissociation
- 2:43:22 - Beyond Own Dissociation Boundary
- 2:45:55 - Mental Dissociative Character

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RESOURCES:

- YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWcTmeAs44I
- Curt's interview with JV alone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p8o3-7mvQc
- Curt's interview with BK alone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAB21FAXCDE
- Patreon for conversations on Theories of Everything, Consciousness, Free Will, and God: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal
- Help support conversations like this via PayPal: https://bit.ly/2EOR0M4
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt
- iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/better-left-unsaid-with-curt-jaimungal/id1521758802
- Pandora: https://pdora.co/33b9lfP
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e
- Discord Invite Code (as of Mar 04 2021): dmGgQ2dRzS
- Subreddit r/TheoriesOfEverything: https://reddit.com/r/theoriesofeverything
- JV's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/johnvervaeke
- JV's "Meaning Crisis" series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54l8_ewcOlY&list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
- BK's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeDZCa3VrRQvzBlVR-oVVmA

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