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Talks and conversations.
VideoMaterialism is Complete Nonsense
Alex O’Connor · Bernardo Kastrup
Within Reason #128 — Alex O’Connor presses Bernardo Kastrup on analytic idealism, why materialism fails, and what it means for personhood and the self.
VideoFederico Faggin on life, the universe and everything
Federico Faggin
The inventor of the microprocessor on idealism from both a technical and a deeply personal angle — consciousness, free will, and what a body is for.
VideoThe Nature of Consciousness
Rupert Spira
Spira’s SAND 2015 talk — consciousness as that in which all experience appears, by which it is known, and out of which it is made.
VideoDo we see reality as it is?
Donald Hoffman
Hoffman’s TED talk on the interface theory of perception — evolution shapes icons for fitness, not a window onto reality as it is.
VideoAdvaita Vedanta and the Hard Problem of Consciousness
Swami Sarvapriyananda
A clear Vedanta framing of the Hard Problem — awareness as the light in which mind and world appear, not a late product of them.
VideoSpiritual Enlightenment — The Most Shocking Truth
Leo Gura
An advanced Actualized.org pointer toward direct insight — dismantling belief and ego rather than collecting spiritual concepts.
VideoIntuitive intelligence
Tiokasin Ghosthorse
Lakota elder Tiokasin Ghosthorse on intuitive intelligence — listening beyond the colonial mind toward Earth-centered ways of knowing.
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