The body is not a machine - Michael Levin | Bernardo Kastrup @adventuresinawareness

Adventures in Awareness Michael discusses a revolutionary paradigm to biomedicine - interfacing with the body as a conscious agent.

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This was an excerpt from a 5-week discussion series with Bernardo Kastrup & Michael, a longer excerpt can be found here: youtu.be/OTPkmpNCAJ0

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The body is not a machine - Michael Levin | Bernardo Kastrup

Adventures in Awareness 2023-12-03 | Michael discusses a revolutionary paradigm to biomedicine - interfacing with the body as a conscious agent.

To join the next conversation with Michael & Bernardo, March 2024, visit https://dandelion.events/e/w91sz

This was an excerpt from a 5-week discussion series with Bernardo Kastrup & Michael, a longer excerpt can be found here: youtu.be/OTPkmpNCAJ0

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Michael Levin | Bernardo Kastrup open Q&A

Adventures in Awareness 2024-10-13 | Next open Q&A with Michael Levin - 18th Nov: https://dandelion.events/e/z925v

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This was an open Q&A with Michael Levin & Bernardo Kastrup, raising money for the Ormylia Foundation, supporting homeless children who have been abused, orphaned or fleeing war zones, as well as preventive medical care, research and child protection to remote communities in Greece.

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Questions included:
How does brain activity integrate to a single experience
The place for physical exercise - stressor as a cognitive glue
Emotion, chi and kundalini awakening
The limits of science on larger scales
Single cells show cognitive
Is electro-magnetic energy the basis of thought?
The meaning of the mystery
Philosophy guides scientific enquiry
Michael Levin’s goals and motivation
Should we steal fire from the gods?
Are mathematics an archetypal truth of reality?
Mathematics percolate up from reality to the go
Would aliens on a gas giant develop the same mathematics?
Dynamics of the platonic realm
Downsides to your work?
Why to regenerated limbs age?
Do cells have consciousness and do we rely on cell consciousness?
Why are scientists more open to idealism? Is there a crisis in materialism?
Omniscience and omnipotence?
Space and time cannot be defined
Does internal states correspond to external events?

Bernardo Kastrup | The Case for Idealism - full lecture part 2

Adventures in Awareness 2024-10-11 | Celebrating Bernardo's upcoming book 'Idealism in a nutshell' we're releasing these two lectures, originally filmed 22nd June 2020 as part of a four week course.

Part 1 of The Case for Idealism is here: youtu.be/Mar2X6bvid4

Lecture 1: Refuting Materialism can be found here: • Bernardo Kastrup | Refuting Materiali...

Our next discussion series with Bernardo starts 29th Oct and features as guest the celebrated neuroscientist Christof Koch: https://dandelion.events/e/y54ag

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Bernardo Kastrup's work has been leading the modern renaissance of the philosophical position, ‘metaphysical idealism’ that reality is essentially mental, an appearance in ‘mind.’ Bernardo has a Ph.D. in philosophy (ontology, philosophy of mind) and another Ph.D. in computer engineering (reconfigurable computing, artificial intelligence). As a scientist, Bernardo has worked for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the Philips Research Laboratories (where the 'Casimir Effect' of Quantum Field Theory was discovered). Formulated in detail in many academic papers and books, his ideas have been featured on Scientific American, the Institute of Art and Ideas, the Blog of the American Philosophical Association and Big Think, among others. Bernardo's most recent book is The Idea of the World: A multi-disciplinary argument for the mental nature of reality. For more information, freely downloadable papers, videos, etc., please visit www.bernardokastrup.com.

Upcoming Q&As with Michael Levin, Bernardo Kastrup & Christof Koch

Adventures in Awareness 2024-10-06 | Register to attend upcoming events:
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Bernardo Kastrup | The Case for Idealism: full lecture part 1

Adventures in Awareness 2024-10-03 | Celebrating Bernardo's upcoming book 'Idealism in a nutshell' we're releasing these two lectures, originally filmed 22nd June 2020 as part of a four week course.

Lecture 1: Refuting Materialism can be found here: youtu.be/cPCvQQQrZwU?si=Zo__xEddEHJhiYP1

Our next discussion series with Bernardo starts 29th Oct and features as guest the celebrated neuroscientist Christof Koch: https://dandelion.events/e/y54ag

For future iterations of the open Q&A and discussions visit

www.adventuresinawareness.com

Bernardo Kastrup's work has been leading the modern renaissance of the philosophical position, ‘metaphysical idealism’ that reality is essentially mental, an appearance in ‘mind.’ Bernardo has a Ph.D. in philosophy (ontology, philosophy of mind) and another Ph.D. in computer engineering (reconfigurable computing, artificial intelligence). As a scientist, Bernardo has worked for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the Philips Research Laboratories (where the 'Casimir Effect' of Quantum Field Theory was discovered). Formulated in detail in many academic papers and books, his ideas have been featured on Scientific American, the Institute of Art and Ideas, the Blog of the American Philosophical Association and Big Think, among others. Bernardo's most recent book is The Idea of the World: A multi-disciplinary argument for the mental nature of reality. For more information, freely downloadable papers, videos, etc., please visit www.bernardokastrup.com.

0:00 Introduction
3:30 reasons why objective reality outside consciousness seem intuitive: 1. Neural correlates of experience, 2 seemingly consistent objective reality 3. The world doesn't respond to our wishes
7:50 how to overcome these prejudices
10:30 what is undeniably observable as a starting point
13:20 what is the most parsimonious explanation
17:00 Intrinsic vrs extrinsic experience
20:00 Brain function is the extrinsic experience of intrinsic experience
24:28 Intrinsic experiences are reflected back to us as extrinsic experiences
27:30 Information is just a description of richness of states, and does not exist in and of itself
30:30 In idealism phenomenology & ontology are closely related
31:20 All matter is the extrinsic experience of inner life, and mass, charge, spin are merely descriptions of this extrinsic experience.
36:40 Consciousness is not at rest in deep sleep
41:00 Does a TV, a sun or blackhole have inner life?
47:30 The subconscious is mislabeled concept - its only the lack of explicit meta-cognition.
48:00 This is a high match with Near Death Experiences
49:20 Blindsight is a break in meta-cognition (back and forth between experience and self-reporting of the experience.
51:20 The matter of the brain implies that all matter is extrinsic appearance of universal inner life.
53:30 There are no separate objects in the universe - all separation is arbitrary, nominal.
58:00 The universe as a whole is an appearance of an inner experience
60:00 Why does the universe configure itself this way? Why is there suffering?
1:06:00 might universal consciousness dream?
It doesn't have different perspectives, only a wholistic view
1:11:20 AI is not conscious
1:12:20 the universe has no plan
1:14:00 metacognition is the recognition of your own experience
1:15:20 are all living being (plants etc) conscious?
1:16:00 how do the two preservatives (intrinsic and extrinsic) emerge? Dissociation
1:23:00 compartmentalisation is a form of dissociation and shows how we impinge on each others experience, which we call perception
1:30:00 the body is the appearance of dissociation, the world an appearance of mind at large ( universal consciousness not part of alters)
1:36:11 Gods, aliens, angels and split personalities... can there be dissociations within dissociations?

Bernardo Kastrup | Refuting Materialism: full lecture

Adventures in Awareness 2024-09-29 | Celebrating Bernardo's upcoming book 'Idealism in a nutshell' we're releasing these two lectures, originally filmed 22nd June 2020 as part of a four week course.

Lecture 2: The Case for Idealism is available here: youtu.be/Mar2X6bvid4

Our next discussion series with Bernardo starts 29th Oct and features as guest the celebrated neuroscientist Christof Koch: https://dandelion.events/e/y54ag

For future iterations of the open Q&A and discussions visit
adventuresinawareness.com

Bernardo Kastrup's work has been leading the modern renaissance of the philosophical position, ‘metaphysical idealism’ that reality is essentially mental, an appearance in ‘mind.’ Bernardo has a Ph.D. in philosophy (ontology, philosophy of mind) and another Ph.D. in computer engineering (reconfigurable computing, artificial intelligence). As a scientist, Bernardo has worked for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the Philips Research Laboratories (where the 'Casimir Effect' of Quantum Field Theory was discovered). Formulated in detail in many academic papers and books, his ideas have been featured on Scientific American, the Institute of Art and Ideas, the Blog of the American Philosophical Association and Big Think, among others. Bernardo's most recent book is The Idea of the World: A multi-disciplinary argument for the mental nature of reality. For more information, freely downloadable papers, videos, etc., please visit www.bernardokastrup.com.

PROBLEMS OF MATERIALISM

0:00 Introduction
5:00 Materialism means mainstream metaphysical physicalism
8:00 Materialism = mainstream physicalism
8:45 Even militant materialists don’t understand materialism
Understanding what Materialism Claims
14:33 Understanding metaphysical materialism - - that conscious experience is only possible as an emergent property of complex arrangements of matter in the brain.
18:03 According to materialism, the world is only happening inside the skull
18:10 Matter is an explanatory abstraction of mind, happening in the mind
22:40 Scientists discovered it was useful to describe perceptions in terms of quantities, which capture relative differences in perceived qualities, eg, weight.
23:40 Materialism retains measurements and discards that which is measured
27:00 Materialism involves a confusion that creates the hard problem, the ‘explanatory gap’
28:10 It’s reducing the territory to the map, and failing to explain the territory
28:50 There is no contradiction between idealism and descriptions of nature
30:50 The difference between qualities and descriptions: experience vrs numbers/models
That what cannot be captured by numbers, which capture the RELATIVE difference in qualities, which only has meaning if having experienced the qualities
34:36 Idealism doesn’t deny consensus reality
36:45 Seeing through the hard problem of consciousness
39:35 The problem with materialism is not reductionism, it's what they reduce things to
41:30 Metaphysical materialism vs Ethical Materialism
44:25 Ontology, the study of what is, the essence of things

53:00 Defining “epiphenomenon” - something reducible, a product of something else, eg wetness is something that can not exist without water.. For a materialist, experience is an epiphenomenon of matter.

1:06:30 Science tells us how reality behaves, not what it is
Science examines how nature behaves
Philosophy in metaphysics is what nature IS
1:11:22 Materialist don’t understand materialism or evidence of science
The behaviour of nature contradicts ‘physical realism’ - objects existing in a defined way independent of observation, disproved by quantum experiments. Physicality arises only upon observation.
1:15:28 Summary of experiments that refute physical idealism blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/coming-to-grips-with-the-implications-of-quantum-mechanics
1:16:48 Evaluating materialism based on logic, consistency, parsimony, empiricism and its explanatory power

1:30:40 Constitutive Panpsychism: materialism’s newest incarnation
an attempt to attribute consciousness to the description
1:34:39 Problems with Constitutive Panpsychism
1:37:50 2nd problem of panpsychism - attributing to experiences a structure only perceived on the screen of perception.
1:43:00 3rd problem if panpsychism - there are no separate particles, in the same way, there are no ripples separate from water - it can’t explain the apparent separation
1:51:22 Cosmo-psychism - an unnecessary label for idealism
The universe is in consciousness is different from the universe is conscious
2:02:20 Materialism nor panpsychism are tenable.
2:02:40 Which book to start with

Buddhism vs Nonduality: Yahel Avigur on the emptiness of awareness

Adventures in Awareness 2024-09-08 | The following is a conversation with Yahel Avigur, a highly regarded meditation teacher in the Buddhist Insight meditation tradition. He regularly leads retreats at Gaia House in the UK, and was approved to Rob Burbea to teach his approach to emptiness, dependent arising and Jhanas, the special states of deep absorption that can arise in mediation. He is highly sought after to guide long personal silent retreats for people doing 3 month, 6 month and year long immersions.

The conversation is basically motivated by my desire to understand the differences between Advaita Vedanta and Buddhist perspectives on reality and awakening. Specifically, how fundamental is awareness?

Advaita Vendanta is otherwise known as non-duality or metaphysical idealism, which is the notion that all of reality is consciousness, and there are many other videos on the channel with Bernado Kastrup, Rupert Spira, Christopher Wallis and such that expound on this view.

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Mark Ovland: Beyond Awakening - on Rob Burbea, Buddhism and Loving-Kindness

Adventures in Awareness 2024-08-29 | Mark grew up in the UK as an atheist, but then spent a year as a monk in India after a powerful and unexpected spiritual awakening. He now teaches insight meditation inspired by the late Rob Burbea, with a focus on understanding the emptiness of all things and the ways in which changing our ways of looking can reduce suffering and enhance the beauty of life. He offers teachings freely, living frugally in a caravan in the UK, from donations from those who appreciate what he offers.

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00:00 Introduction
03:30 Mark's background and awakening
08:00 The phenomenology of the awakening
15:00 No sense of self
26:00 Beyond non-dual awakening
30:00 Meeting the guru: Rob Burbea
36:00 Emptiness of all things
44:00 Emptiness creates freedom
51:00 Why should you care?
1:00:00 Mark's upcoming course on Loving-Kindness
1:05:20 Guided Loving-Kindness Meditation

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What is Information? Bernardo Kastrup | Shamil Chandaria on Idealism & Integrated Information Theory

Adventures in Awareness 2024-07-27 | An excerpt from our discussion series "With Reality in Mind"

Dr Shamil Chandaria has 30 years experience in mathematical modelling a background in Natural Sciences and later Economics at Cambridge University, a PhD from the London School of Economics, in mathematical modelling of financial economic systems and an MA in Philosophy from University College London where he developed an interest in philosophy of science and philosophical issues in biology and neuroscience. Shamil was previously a visiting academic at the Future of Humanities Institute at Oxford and is a Strategic Advisor at DeepMind.

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Bernardo Kastrup on Metacognition #2: Integrated Information Theory & Markov Blankets

Adventures in Awareness 2024-07-13 | An in-depth discussion with Bernardo on metacognition, Integrated Information Theory, and Markov Blankets. This video is an excerpt from our online discussion series 'With Reality in Mind'.

Bernardo discusses:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:40:00 - Analytic Idealism & IIT - Metacognition, Dissociation, Re-entrant Loops & Vertices
00:08:20 - Brain correlation in IIT - Hot area of the brain, Parietal lobe
00:25:00 - Markov Blankets - Free Energy Principle & the Dashboard
00:31:45 - Markov Blanket definition
00:43:35 - What is information?
01:04:10 - Combination Problem & IIT - Cognitive systems vs. Physicalism; electrons, protons & boundaries
01:11:48 - Meditation techniques & Predictive processing
01:14:51 - Mind at large & Mathematics - is mathematics a language beyond space & time?
01:24:05 - Euler's formula / Euler's equation & the language of mathematics
01:27:30 - Mathematics is psychological
01:33:54 - Tautological expansion
01:39:49 - Mathematics is grounded in mental states - Experiential states & Archetypes
01:47:10 - Distinction between capability & property
1:58:10 - Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem

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Bernardo Kastrup on Metacognition - #1

Adventures in Awareness 2024-07-05 | An in-depth discussion with Bernardo on the purpose and significance of metacognition, an excerpt from our online discussion series 'With Reality in Mind'.

Bernardo discusses:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:47 - What is metacognition / meta-consciousness?
00:15:09 - Dissociated from cognition
00:17:37 - Egoic activity & the default mode network - metacognition, meditation, dreams and psychedelics
00:23:03 - Is metacognition binary?
00:25:00 - Presence and non-duality
00:34:30 - The recognition of a subject of experience
00:40:44 - It can be cultivated
00:41:24 - The birth & pitfalls of metacognition; a reverse kundalini experience
00:47:56 - A tool that can be used for different purposes
00:50:56 - Metacognition and agency
00:57:11 - Is it the purpose of the universe?
01:02:28 - Why did it evolve? It allows deliberation and planning
01:08:43 - Metacognition needs us - it can only evolve in alters

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Patrick Harpur on being part angel, part animal

Adventures in Awareness 2024-05-22 | Patrick on how to engage with the daimon, the spirit world, and staying sane without losing your soul.

An excerpt from a 5-week discussion series with Bernardo Kastrup & Patrick Harpur
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One God or Many? Patrick Harpur | Bernado Kastrup on Polytheism and Monotheism

Adventures in Awareness 2024-05-19 | An excerpt from a 5-week discussion series with Bernardo Kastrup & Patrick Harpur
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Patrick Harpur | Bernardo Kastrup: Myth, Imagination & Truth

Adventures in Awareness 2024-05-12 | An excerpt from a 5-week discussion series with Bernardo Kastrup, with guest Patrick Harpur.

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We discussed:

Patrick's route to the Western Esoteric Tradition
Daimons, Shamans and the link between worlds
His views on anomalous phenomena (UFOs, fairies etc)
Enlightenment and the Western Tradition

Patrick Harpur attended St Catharine's College, Cambridge, to read English, and his writings have appeared in The Guardian, Fortean Times, Gnosis, Resurgence, the New Statesman and the Independent on Sunday. He is often invited to give talks in the UK, in Spain and in America; and he has taught post-graduate students at Schumacher College (Dartington).

As well as several novels, Patrick is the author of 4 non-fiction books including Daimonic Reality: A Field Guide to the Otherworld which attempted to make sense of visions and apparitions by recourse to Platonic philosophy, Jungian psychology, and the Romantic notion of imagination. He also wrote The Philosophers' Secret Fire: A History of the Imagination outlined an esoteric Western way of seeing the world which has been largely neglected. In 2010, Rider published the rather ambitiously titled A Complete Guide to the Soul, which appeared a year later in the US as The Secret Tradition of the Soul (Evolver Editions, an imprint of North Atlantic Books). The Stormy Petrel (The Squeeze Press, 2017) is a novel based on the life and work of the Danish thinker Søren Kierkegaard, whose writings have gripped Patrick for years.

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Federico Faggin | Bernardo Kastrup: Quantum Physics, Spirituality & Consciousness

Adventures in Awareness 2024-04-25 | This was an excerpt from a 5-week discussion series with Bernardo Kastrup, Nov 2022, with guest Federico Faggin.

Federico Faggin is an Italian-American physicist, engineer, inventor and entrepreneur. He is best known for designing the first commercial microprocessor, the Intel 4004. In 2010, he received the 2009 National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the highest honor the United States confers for achievements related to technological progress.

In 2011, Faggin founded the Federico and Elvia Faggin Foundation to support the scientific study of consciousness at US universities and research institutes.

Bernardo considers him ‘probably the most well-rounded Idealist alive today.’

He has a new book just released available here: collectiveinkbooks.com/essentia-books/our-books/irreducible-consciousness-life-computers-human-nature

We discussed:

Federico's journey to his model of reality
How science must completely change to incorporate consciousness
How quantum states make sense when viewed as descriptions of experience
How consciousness and life are nothing like computers
How meditation, spirituality and science relate

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Michael Levin | Bernardo Kastrup #3: Evolution, Metacognition, Life & Death

Adventures in Awareness 2024-04-15 | This was an excerpt from a 5-week discussion series with Bernardo Kastrup & Michael Levin

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Duality is an illusion: Christopher Wallis | Bernardo Kastrup

Adventures in Awareness 2024-03-12 | Is what you see separate from the "you" that is seeing it?

Is duality something we are trying to remove through meditation?

An excerpt from youtu.be/_w-1Oa1s5tI?si=XtrrZzyxVeVLce1T

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Lucid dream or spiritual awakening? #shorts #luciddreams

Adventures in Awareness 2024-02-25 | Psychologist Jessica Corneille discusses her lifes most profound lucid dream and how it lead to a spontaneous spiritual awakening.

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The artistry of life is... #philosophy #shorts

Adventures in Awareness 2024-02-12 | Bernardo Kastrup on the artistry of life and perspective

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The possibility of memory transfer #biology #shorts

Adventures in Awareness 2024-02-08 | Dr Michael Levin on the potential of memory transfer using the example planarian flatworms and their incredible ability to regenerate their brains 🧠

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The nature of free will #philosophy #shorts

Adventures in Awareness 2024-02-06 | Join in on our next series' of discussions on the meaning of life and time, metacognitions and their implications through the lens of metaphysical idealism over at: https://dandelion.events/e/w91sz 👁️

Christopher Wallis | Bernardo Kastrup: The artistry of life

Adventures in Awareness 2024-02-06 | “the artistry of life is to take a point of view that you realise the circle and the rectangle are one and the same thing”

An excerpt from youtu.be/_w-1Oa1s5tI?si=XtrrZzyxVeVLce1T

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The Illusion of the World in the Advaita Vedanta Tradition #advaita #shorts

Adventures in Awareness 2024-02-05 | Tune in to our next series of discussions with Christopher "Hareesh" Wallis, scholar-practitioner, and many other scientists and scholars on the meaning of life and time through the lens of metaphysical idealism 👁️ Over at: https://dandelion.events/e/w91sz

The connection between your inner psyche and the world #metaphysical #synchronicity

Adventures in Awareness 2024-02-01 | Author Patrick Harpur on our self appointed distinction between the inner psyche and outer world.

You dont have free will #existentialism #short

Adventures in Awareness 2024-01-26 | Bernardo Kastrup discusses the lack of the self as its own entity and how that may suggest that personal free cannot exist...

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Is your brain really special? #biology #shorts #philosophy

Adventures in Awareness 2024-01-21 | Dr Michael Levin, developmental biologist, explores the idea of what really sets your brain apart and whether it truly is the substrate for your body's 'inner life'. Watch the full excerpt with the link above!

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Michael Levin | Bernardo Kastrup #2: Memory, Time, & Perception

Adventures in Awareness 2024-01-19 | This was an excerpt from a 5-week discussion series with Bernardo Kastrup & Michael Levin

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0:00 Introduction
01:50 Michael’s question to Bernardo: Why did the universe dissociate?
08:00 Diversity requires boundaries. Could cosmic boredom be a factor?
12:20 The nature of memory and time: actively constructed or doorway through time?
21:00 how memory is encoded in biological systems, and “bi-stable” perceptions: Michael on memory and perception in morphological space -
32:10 Delocalised biology catches up with physics: this is how you change the world

Michael Levin on Rupert Sheldrake
37:20 A cure for cancer
40:20 Planaria prove success is what you do with what you have: immortality, regeneration,.
46:20 Implications: regenerate limbs, design your own body, understanding diverse intelligence
52:10 A summary of where Bernardo and Michael agree and disagree

How to determine the boundaries of conscious systems?
Everything has an inner perspectives, but what are the boundaries of the thing

A simulation is not the thing Richard Watson

1:06:20 How to delineate the boundaries of a system empirically
1:12:20 Your right hemisphere has opinions you have no idea about.
1:18:20 Why training something may determine it’s intelligence and boundaries
1:23:42 Bernardo: computer scientists don’t understand computers
1:27:52 What is the causal relationship between bioelectricity and morphogenesis?
Where is the information and patterns stored?
Where do the patterns come from? (It’s not just natural selection.)

Michael’s established work: drmichaellevin.org
Michael’s more speculative work: https://thoughtforms.life/

Is #time just an illusion? ⏳ #philosophy #shorts

Adventures in Awareness 2024-01-17 | Expand your mind through discussions with the world renowned scientists, scholars and philosophers where we investigate the most fundamental questions and experiences life has to offer.

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Christopher Wallis | Bernardo Kastrup: Free will is an egoic story

Adventures in Awareness 2024-01-16 | An excerpt from youtu.be/_w-1Oa1s5tI?si=XtrrZzyxVeVLce1T

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Christopher Wallis | Bernardo Kastrup Part 1: With Reality in Mind

Adventures in Awareness 2024-01-13 | To join the next conversation with Christopher & Bernardo, March 2024, visit https://dandelion.events/e/w91sz

This was an excerpt from a 5-week discussion series with Bernardo Kastrup & Michael Levin

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0:00 Is the world real?
03:15 History of Nondual Shaiva Tantra / Kashmir Shaivism
4:50 Mind-only view supported by logic, mystical experience and scriptural revelation
7:28 3 types of writing: philosophical argumentation, poetry and instruction manuals
9:06 The view: there is only one consciousness who’s body is the entire universe of phenomena
10:40 There are individuals, but only one all encompassing agent: Each being is a microcosm of the whole
12:14 The world is real, not illusory - space time and form are not fundamental
15:22 Realisation that leads to freedom from suffering
20:20 In contrast with advaita vedanta the world is not an illusion: consciousness is innately dynamic

CHRISTOPHER | BERNARDO DIALOGUE

23:00 No-self, No boundary - but unique vantage points
26:30 dissociation is mental processes that cannot infer other content through association
27:44 Two vantage points does not equate to dissociation = two eyes, one consciousness
33:38 There is no personal free will, only the whole
41:22 “Will” is why there is something rather than nothing
45:12 Deep meditation can reveal the state of pure awareness with no experience
55:10 Time is a mental model: there is no flow of time

“no body has ever experienced the flow of time… there is only a grand tree of cognitive content, associated or not with one another through the evocation of common meanings. That’s all there is, ever was and all there ever will be ” - Bernardo

1:04:33 Duality is a mental construct
1:07:20 Should we trust reason, or evidence? Revelation or Perception?
1:18:33 **What meditation & mystical experience can reveal:**
- Now includes all the future and the past
- All existence infused with live presence
1:23:50 What it takes to “get it”

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Why you dissociate daily #philosophy #shorts

Adventures in Awareness 2024-01-12 | Bernardo Kastrup discusses the power of dissociation of the self

How your #brain can play tricks on you #shorts

Adventures in Awareness 2024-01-09 | Dr. Daniel Ingram on how what we perceive is already pre processed before we can make sense of it. Watch the full exciting interview about the concept of the 'no-self'.

Did the Big Bang actually happen? #shorts #philosophy

Adventures in Awareness 2024-01-05 | Bernardo Kastrup PhD discusses the Big Bang and the origin of the universe.

Did the big bang actually happen or is it a story we tell ourselves?

Watch the full discussion with Bernardo here: youtu.be/NBlbAF5h1gw

The symbolic meaning of the universe #podcast #shorts

Adventures in Awareness 2024-01-03 | Bernardo Kastrup discusses the significance of symbols in understanding the origin of the universe and the meaning behind life.

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Bernardo Kastrup on ethical relationships to other species and AI

Adventures in Awareness 2023-12-21 | To join the next conversation with Michael & Bernardo, 22nd Dec 2023, visit https://dandelion.events/e/p7xm2

This was an excerpt from a 5-week discussion series with Bernardo Kastrup & Michael Levin

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Michael Levin: Consciousness in every cell

Adventures in Awareness 2023-12-21 | To join the next conversation with Michael & Bernardo, March 2024, visit https://dandelion.events/e/w91sz

This was an excerpt from a 5-week discussion series with Bernardo Kastrup & Michael Levin

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Michael Levin: What systems have consciousness and an inner life?

Adventures in Awareness 2023-12-20 | To join the next conversation with Michael & Bernardo, March 2024, visit https://dandelion.events/e/w91sz

This was an excerpt from a 5-week discussion series with Bernardo Kastrup & Michael Levin

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Patrick Harpur on Jung’s metaphysics and synchronicities

Adventures in Awareness 2023-12-08 | Patrick Harpur on Jung’s metaphysics

An excerpt from a 5-week discussion series with Bernardo Kastrup & Patrick Harpur
The full discussion is available here: youtu.be/r4hEOJQpbiw

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Mind body interface is the future of medicine

Adventures in Awareness 2023-11-25 | To join the next conversation with Michael & Bernardo, 22nd Dec 2023, visit https://dandelion.events/e/p7xm2

This was an excerpt from a 5-week discussion series with Bernardo Kastrup & Michael Levin

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Michael Levin | Bernardo Kastrup #1: Consciousness, Cellular Intelligence, Boundaries of Self

Adventures in Awareness 2023-11-25 | To join the next conversation with Michael & Bernardo, March 2024, visit https://dandelion.events/e/w91sz

For part two: youtu.be/RZFVroQOpAc

This was an excerpt from a 5-week discussion series with Bernardo Kastrup & Michael Levin

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CONTENT

0:00 Introduction
1:40 What Bernardo appreciates in Michaels work
2:50 What Michael appreciates in Bernardo’s work.
3:55 How to tell what is conscious
10:00 Every cell does what neurons do: if brains produce consciousness maybe all cells do
12:00 A framework for types of mind
14:40 The continuum of agency: based on prediction and efficacious interaction
19:27 Bernardo’s: the boundaries of self
24:09 Bernardo: conscious computers are unlikely: things only exist conceptually
29:00 Michael: Goal seeking the best measure of consciousness: since there is no obvious place mechanical chemistry becomes cognitive life, and all life is a collection of nested selves
36:26 Bernardo: Individuality is epiphenomenal and can explain laboratory division of life
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LIFE VS IMITATIONS

39:54 Bernardo: Distinguish between what is natural and what is an imitation (a mannequin)
A Mannequin looks like a human because it is designed to look like one, but we can’t draw more correlations based on that. AI might seek certain goals because it was designed to by its creators, but equally we can’t draw further conclusions based on that.
42:13 Michael: gears and cogs could make life
46:00 Michael: Metabolism is a version of autopoiesis; self construction and the need to battle for energy
48:00 Agency must be determined by perturbative experiments, not casual observation.
50:58 Life identified by goal seeking behaviour
55:26 Bernardo praises the paradigm shift Michael introduces in recognising agents in nature
Michael recognises the alternative health community as having this paradigm without the mechanism. Bioelectrical networks the glue collections of cells.
1:00 Hypnosis/therapy may be mechanisms to intervene at higher order levels.
1:07:00 Recap of criteria for consciousness
1:13:00 Moral/Ethical implications of Michael’s work
1:19:00 Recognising higher order agents in human society
Michael is not sure if bioelectricity can be extrapolated to human society

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Out of Body Discussion Panel

Adventures in Awareness 2023-11-08 | Filmed 20th Jun 2020, in collaboration with the Psychedelic Society, this panel discussion with leading researchers and academics in the fascinating realm of out of body experiences; how they manifest, what they might mean, and their transformational effects in peoples lives.

Host: Charlie Morley Lucid dream teacher
Jade Shaw OBE researcher and teacher
Anthony Peake Consciousness and perception researcher
Dr Oliver Robinson Director Beyond the Brain Conference and Psychologist Greenwich University
Dr David Luke Psychedelic Researcher Greenwich University
Luciana Haill creates artworks that explore altered states of consciousness, and focus on sleep, lucid dreaming, memory and nostalgia.
Graham Nicholls Director of the Out of Body and Near Death Experience Society UK

Jade Shaw has an online course on Astral Projection available here: psychedelicsociety.org.uk/astral-projection-course

Aware: Discussion Panel with Roland Griffiths, Monical Gagliano, Frauke Sandig, Eric Black

Adventures in Awareness 2023-10-19 | A post-screening panel discussion with cast from the feature length documentary 'Aware', in collaboration with Psychedelic Society UK, March 3rd 2022 with:

Roland Griffiths, Ph.D., Director, Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research
Frauke Sandig & Eric Black; Directors
Monica Gagliano, Professor of Plant Behavior & Cognition, University of Sydney.
Andrea Jungaberle: Co-Founder Mind Foundation
Amir Giles: Panel Host - Adventured in Awareness

Screening in collaboration with The Psychedelic Society

The full film is available at:

aware-film.com
umbrellafilms.org
contact Umbrella Films: umbrellafilms@sandig.com

Bernardo Kastrup: Navigating cancer from an idealist perspective

Adventures in Awareness 2023-10-15 | Bernardo Kastrup discusses his perspective on cancer and illness informed by his metaphysical idealist philosophy. If everything we think of as physical is a representation of subjective inner states, how might we think of cancer and what does that mean practically?

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Spontaneous Spiritual Awakening with Jessica Corneille

Adventures in Awareness 2023-02-17 | Recorded April 2022

Following her own sudden non-dual experience one morning in February 2016, Jessica Corneille decided to change the course of her life by quitting her career in the arts/cultural heritage preservation (and as an aspiring art curator), to play her part, instead, in helping to de-stigmatise, de-pathologise and raise awareness around spiritual awakening, enlightenment, and non-dual experiences within mainstream psychology.

She graduated with Distinction from a Masters Degree in Psychology from the University of Greenwich, where she focused her studies on the psychology of exceptional human experiences (transpersonal, anomalistic and parapsychology), under the guidance of Dr David Luke. She is now a fully-qualified research psychologist specialising predominantly in spiritual awakenings of a spontaneous nature, as well as other non-ordinary states of consciousness. Jessica has presented her work at a number of academic conferences, including with the British Psychological Society. She also works for the Scientific and Medical Network, is a member of the Galileo Commission steering committee, a collaborator of the Emergent Phenomenology Research Consortium and Spiritual Crisis Network, a certified Kundalini Yoga teacher running regular classes in London, and has recently started running sharing circles with the Psychedelic Society and Spiritual Awakenings International.

Her greatest missions in life are to challenge the default pathologisation of awakening experiences by helping to inform and encourage mainstream psychology to look beyond the current designated spectrum of ‘normality’, to encompass the transpersonal as something that is intrinsic to the human experience, and in helping individuals come to the realisation of their highest human potential.

You can read her academic paper here: doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.720579
For Spiritual Awakening Sharing Circles in London with Jessica (occasionally online): https://dandelion.earth/u/dust_

To get in touch email: jessicacorneille@gmail.com

0:00 Jessica’s bio
2:35 Jessica’s spiritual awakening
4:00 Lucid dream: what is the meaning of life?
10:00 This is possible for everyone
17:00 Nothing matters & everything does
18:00 What lasts?
19:41 Integrating the experience: finding community
23:00 Raising awareness of spiritual awakenings
26:50 What is true awakening?
29:00 Letting go of gurus and religion
31:40 Support for others who have spontaneous experiences
Addressing the pathologisation in psychiatry
34:00 Reaction to Jessica’s academic paper
38:00 Where to get support?
40:00 Is reality dual or nondual?
42:30 God - Consciousness - Life - Intelligence
43:20 Kundalini Yoga
47:00 Finding your own path
49:50 Losing the experience
53:30 Research collaborations

Resources mentioned:
American Centre for the Integration of Spiritual Transformative Experiences
ACISTE aciste.org
Spiritual Crisis Network spiritualcrisisnetwork.uk
Spiritual Emergence Network spiritualemergencenetwork.org
Emerging Proud emergingproud.com
The Emergent Phenomenology Research Consortium theeprc.org

Can Universal Consciousness learn? Bernardo Kastrup & Rupert Spira

Adventures in Awareness 2022-10-16 | Bernardo Kastrup & Rupert Spira discuss whether universal consciousness does or can learn anything from the experiences we have in this life? For example, an awareness of its capabilities, or the knowing of what it would feel like not to be itself.

“I personally am convinced that nature has a telos, and it has to do with explicit self-awareness” - Bernardo Kastrup

The purpose we all feel in whatever we are striving for, I think it is the impulse in us to revert to our natural state” - Rupert Spira

An excerpt from a 5-week course with Bernardo Kastrup & Rupert Spira.

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Does the universe have a plan? Bernardo Kastrup & Rupert Spira

Adventures in Awareness 2022-10-12 | Bernardo Kastrup and Rupert Spira discuss their belief that reality, or infinite consciousness does not have a plan, but there doesn’t need to be a premeditated plan for there to be a spontaneous and intelligent response to circumstances in the direction of a goal.

“I personally am convinced that nature has a telos, and it has to do with explicit self-awareness” - Bernardo Kastrup

The purpose we all feel in whatever we are striving for, I think it is the impulse in us to revert to our natural state” - Rupert Spira

An excerpt from a 5-week course with Bernardo Kastrup & Rupert Spira.

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Worship in Non-Duality? Bernardo Kastrup & Rupert Spira

Adventures in Awareness 2022-10-09 | Rupert Spira and Bernardo Kastrup discuss the place of worship, praise and gratitude in the Non-Dual understanding.

An excerpt from a 5-week course with Bernardo Kastrup & Rupert Spira.

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Bernardo Kastrup: Only one thing going on

Adventures in Awareness 2022-10-05 | Bernardo explains how even to speak of parts, alters, dissociation is a profound injustice to what is actually going on, and there is no way to actually express this with language.

An excerpt from a 5-week course with Bernardo Kastrup & Rupert Spira.

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The world reveals our deepest mind - Rupert Spira & Bernardo Kastrup

Adventures in Awareness 2022-10-02 | Rupert Spira and Bernardo Kastrup discuss how reality may be similar to how dreaming externalises as a symbol what is hidden within when waking, and in the context of metaphysical idealis, or nonduality, the world may be an externalisation of the deepest regions of our shared minds.

An excerpt from a 5-week course with Bernardo Kastrup & Rupert Spira.

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Peace regardless of circumstances? Rupert Spira

Adventures in Awareness 2022-09-26 | Rupert Spira shares his personal experience towards experiencing peace no matter life's circumstances.

An excerpt from a 5-week course with Bernardo Kastrup & Rupert Spira.
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