Bernardo Kastrup 🇪🇺 | Reflections and Meditations, episode 3: Real or Imagined? (Bernardo Kastrup) @bernardokastrup | Uploaded May 2012 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Does reality exist when nobody is looking? Is the existence of nature really independent of conscious minds? Different challenges emerge depending on whether the answer to this question is 'yes' or 'no'. In case of 'yes', one has to explain how something as immaterial as consciousness can emerge from something as unconscious as matter. In case of 'no', one has to explain how a solid, continuous, and apparently autonomous reality can emerge from the voluble medium of mind. In this video, we will explore these options and ask ourselves: Which of the two questions above is more amenable to rational analysis? For more information, see:
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Some relevant bibliography for the subjects tackled in this video:
-- Simon Gröblacher et al., 'An Experimental Test of Non-Local Realism,' Nature, Vol. 446, doi:10.1038/nature05677, 19 April 2007, pp. 871--875;
-- Alain Aspect et al., 'Experimental Tests of Realistic Local Theories via Bell's Theorem', Physical Review Letters, Vol. 47(460), 1981;
-- Alain Aspect et al., 'Experimental Realization of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-Bohm Gedankenexperiment: A New Violation of Bell's Inequalities,' Physical Review Letters 49(91), 1982;
-- Alain Aspect et al., 'Experimental Test of Bell's Inequalities Using Time-Varying Analyzers,' Physical Review Letters, Vol. 49(1804), 1982;
-- W. Tittel, J. Brendel, H. Zbinden, and N. Gisin, 'Violation of Bell Inequalities by Photons More Than 10 km Apart,' Physical Review Letters, Vol. 81(17), doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett. 81.3563, 1998, pp. 3563--3566;
-- G. Weihs, T. Jennewein, C. Simon, H. Weinfurter and A. Zeilinger, 'Violation of Bell's Inequality under Strict Einstein Locality Conditions,' Physical Review Letters, Vol. 81(23), doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.5039, 1998, pp. 5039--5043;
-- J. S. Bell, 'Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics: Collected Papers on Quantum Philosophy,' Cambridge University Press, 2004;
-- Alain Aspect, 'Bell's Inequality Test: More Ideal Than Ever,' Nature, Vol. 398, 18 March 1999, pp. 189--190;
-- Samir Okasha, 'Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction,' Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 58--76;
-- Larry Laudan, 'Demystifying Underdetermination,' in: J. A. Cover and M. Curd (editors), 'Philosophy of Science: The Central Issues,' W. W. Norton & Company, 1998, pp. 320--353.
This is episode 3 of the 6-episode series "Reflections and Meditations."
Music tracks "Lone Harvest" and "Deliberate Thought" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.
Does reality exist when nobody is looking? Is the existence of nature really independent of conscious minds? Different challenges emerge depending on whether the answer to this question is 'yes' or 'no'. In case of 'yes', one has to explain how something as immaterial as consciousness can emerge from something as unconscious as matter. In case of 'no', one has to explain how a solid, continuous, and apparently autonomous reality can emerge from the voluble medium of mind. In this video, we will explore these options and ask ourselves: Which of the two questions above is more amenable to rational analysis? For more information, see:
bernardokastrup.com
facebook.com/BernardoKastrup
Some relevant bibliography for the subjects tackled in this video:
-- Simon Gröblacher et al., 'An Experimental Test of Non-Local Realism,' Nature, Vol. 446, doi:10.1038/nature05677, 19 April 2007, pp. 871--875;
-- Alain Aspect et al., 'Experimental Tests of Realistic Local Theories via Bell's Theorem', Physical Review Letters, Vol. 47(460), 1981;
-- Alain Aspect et al., 'Experimental Realization of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-Bohm Gedankenexperiment: A New Violation of Bell's Inequalities,' Physical Review Letters 49(91), 1982;
-- Alain Aspect et al., 'Experimental Test of Bell's Inequalities Using Time-Varying Analyzers,' Physical Review Letters, Vol. 49(1804), 1982;
-- W. Tittel, J. Brendel, H. Zbinden, and N. Gisin, 'Violation of Bell Inequalities by Photons More Than 10 km Apart,' Physical Review Letters, Vol. 81(17), doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett. 81.3563, 1998, pp. 3563--3566;
-- G. Weihs, T. Jennewein, C. Simon, H. Weinfurter and A. Zeilinger, 'Violation of Bell's Inequality under Strict Einstein Locality Conditions,' Physical Review Letters, Vol. 81(23), doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.5039, 1998, pp. 5039--5043;
-- J. S. Bell, 'Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics: Collected Papers on Quantum Philosophy,' Cambridge University Press, 2004;
-- Alain Aspect, 'Bell's Inequality Test: More Ideal Than Ever,' Nature, Vol. 398, 18 March 1999, pp. 189--190;
-- Samir Okasha, 'Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction,' Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 58--76;
-- Larry Laudan, 'Demystifying Underdetermination,' in: J. A. Cover and M. Curd (editors), 'Philosophy of Science: The Central Issues,' W. W. Norton & Company, 1998, pp. 320--353.
This is episode 3 of the 6-episode series "Reflections and Meditations."
Music tracks "Lone Harvest" and "Deliberate Thought" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.
