61 Quotes by Bernardo Kastrup

The most exciting discoveries always entail the loss of previously held certainties.

It seems that wherever we look - quantum physics, major world events, the foundations of logic, analytic philosophy, and now the history of science - we see the subtle footprints of a dreamed-up reality; a reality where logic is itself constructed through a self-imposed reduction in the degrees of freedom of the absurd; a world constructed through coherent mental procedures; a world where empirical observation is a mirror of the subjects’ implicit worldview.

It seems that we must always have a story - a myth - or the world itself would vanish before our eyes.

Your life is a patchwork of projected concepts; a thin conceptual crust around an unfathomable core of the amorphous substance of existence.

Rejoice for your ability to forget, for it endows you with the colors of life. But bear this in mind: you will once again remember. And when you do, you will again be home. In the interim, live out your myths - imaginatively.

Our consensus world-instantiation is a metaphor of mind for mind; a self-referential ‘strange loop.

The ultimate technology is the leveraging of mind: the fountainhead of the world; the origin of all logic and physics. If only we could learn to gain mastery of our own mind, conscious and unconscious, unfathomable new possibilities would open up before us.

Only nothing is true.

Space and time are like ghosts that vanish into thin air every time we try to grab them. Their ‘form’ is ‘emptiness’ referring to itself in a kind of cognitive short-circuit... [They] are names we give to certain configurations of subjective experience, not independent entities out there.