17 Quotes by Bernardo Kastrup about Metaphysics
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The most exciting discoveries always entail the loss of previously held certainties.
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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.
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It seems that we must always have a story - a myth - or the world itself would vanish before our eyes.
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Your life is a patchwork of projected concepts; a thin conceptual crust around an unfathomable core of the amorphous substance of existence.
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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.
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Our consensus world-instantiation is a metaphor of mind for mind; a self-referential ‘strange loop.
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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.
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Scientism today is doing what the church did in the fifteenth century: forcing theory to fit a predetermined metaphysics.
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What is the world for if not to evoke and reflect back to us, as mirror, the obfuscated aspects of ourselves?
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