Leading-edge empirical observations are increasingly difficult to reconcile with \'scientific\' materialism.
He lives in Veldhoven, Netherlands..
His main interests are metaphysics and philosophy of mind.
He has been a scientist in some of the world\'s foremost Scientific laboratories. in philosophy and another in computer engineering.
About author(s): Bernardo Kastrup has a Ph.
D.
The resulting argument anticipates a historically imminent transition to a Scientific Worldview that, while elegantly accommodating all known empirical evidence and predictive models, regards mind not Matter as the ground of all reality.
The essays have been revised and improved, while two neverbeforepublished essays have been added.
The book brings together a number of highly influential essays previously published by major media outlets such as Scientific American and the Institute of Art and Ideas.
In this book, the broad body of empirical evidence and reasoning in favor of analytic idealism is reviewed in an accessible manner.
Analytic idealism the notion that reality, while equally amenable to Scientific inquiry, is fundamentally mental is a leading contender to replace \'scientific\' materialism.
Coupled with the inability of materialist neuroScience to explain consciousness, this is forcing both Science and philosophy to contemplate alternative worldviews.
Laboratory results in quantum mechanics, for instance, strongly indicate that there is no autonomous world of tables and chairs out there.
Leading-edge empirical observations are increasingly difficult to reconcile with \'scientific\' materialism
