These podcast classes present a detailed explanation and defense of analytic idealism, a philosophical viewpoint asserting that reality's fundamental nature is mental, not physical. The presenter contrasts this with mainstream physicalism and panpsychism, highlighting perceived conceptual and empirical inadequacies in those alternatives. Analytic idealism posits a single, universal consciousness or transpersonal mind (God) that undergoes dissociation, giving rise to individual minds and the perception of a physical world as a "dashboard of dials" representing underlying mental activity. The series addresses common objections to analytic idealism, such as the private mind problem, the shared world, the natural order, and the role of the brain, offering counterarguments rooted in the principles of analytic idealism and drawing on findings from neuroscience and physics. Ultimately, the podcasts argues that analytic idealism provides a more coherent, parsimonious, and empirically consistent understanding of reality, emphasizing experience as primary and the physical world as a derivative manifestation of mind.
The Hidden Flaws In Our Common Worldview of Reality?
Physicalism: More Broken Than You Think
Constitutive Panpsychism: Hidden Flaws
A Revolutionary Theory That's Changing Minds: Analytic Idealism
Empirical Evidence Against Physicalism