interview
by DANIEL PINCHBECK
artworks by MARIKA THUNDER
If this quantum scientist, philosopher, and computer engineer is right, materialism is becoming irrelevant. His work is nothing short of a philosophical revolution: called “objective idealism,” it is Radically reshaping our understanding of ourselves and our universe.
It takes time to assimilate Bernardo Kastrup’s philosophy — presented in The Idea of the World; More than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth, and Belief; and Why Materialism Is Baloney, among other works — but it is well worth the effort. As an analytic idealist, Kastrup proposes that consciousness is the ontological primitive, the foundation of reality. The entire universe is actually a projection of an indivisible, instinctive consciousness, in the…