Bernardo Kastrup on Materialism

„materialism is a fantasy. It’s based on unnecessary postulates, circular reasoning and selective consideration of evidence and data. Materialism is by no stretch of the imagination a scientific conclusion, but merely a metaphysical opinion that helps some people interpret scientific conclusions.“

Bernardo KastrupBernardo Kastrup criticizes materialism as unscientific metaphysics based on unnecessary postulates and selective evidence consideration.
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Bernardo Kastrup is a Dutch philosopher and computer engineer known for his work on Analytical Idealism.

Kastrup criticizes materialism as unscientific metaphysics based on faulty assumptions.


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Bernardo Kastrup is a philosopher and computer engineer specializing in the philosophy of mind and ontology. He holds doctorates in philosophy and computer engineering and serves as the director of the Essentia Foundation, which explores alternative theories to materialism. Kastrup advocates an idealistic view that reality is fundamentally consciousness, aiming to integrate insights from analytic philosophy and natural sciences with classical metaphysics.

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"Materialism represents an astonishing failure of the human intellect to see what’s right under its nose. It hides nature’s marvelous simplicity behind a veil of contrivance. Its continuing survival in face of the mounting odds of reason, evidence and direct experience requires constant and deliberate maintenance. Indeed, materialism serves powerful economic and political interests." Bernardo Kastrup
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"Our willingness to accept scientific claims that are against common sense is the key to an understanding of the real struggle between science and the supernatural. We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door." Richard Charles Lewontin
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