INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 809 Amsterdam, November 22th, 2019 WHY IDEALISM IS BONKERS - Some Reflections on the Philosophy of Bernardo Kastrup - FRANK VISSER Bernardo Kastrup is a computer scientist and philosopher living in the Netherlands who has written an impressive series of books on metaphysics. He is well known for advocating a variety of philosophical idealism he calls "Analytical Idealism", and has recently even defended a PhD thesis on this subject. He also has a column in Scientific American. One of his earlier books is called Why Materialism is Baloney, which is popular in the anti-materialistic, spiritual-philosophical scene, and has been mentioned by readers of Integral World a couple of times as something I need to look into. Deepak Chopra praised this book as follows: "Bernardo Kastrup's book is another nail in the coffin of the superstition of materialism. With elegant clarity he explains that mind, brain & cosmos are what consciousness does." He recently appeared as one of the speakers on the "Sages and Scientists" symposium, hosted by Chopra earlier this month. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/visser153.html