Bernardo Kastrup and John Vervaeke [Round 1] Theolocution on Consciousness, Idealism, and Naturalism

In this round‑1 dialogue, philosopher Bernardo Kastrup defends metaphysical idealism while cognitive scientist John Vervaeke explores the meaning crisis and a third‑wave approach to mindfulness. They probe the nature of consciousness, the relationship between mind and matter, and the limits of naturalistic explanations.- 0:00:00 - Introduction- 0:08:50 - Green Room- 0:09:43 - Context Exposition- 0:10:33 - Intros- 0:12:53 - Vervaeke Deep Continuity Rationalist- 0:16:18 - BK Analytic Idealist- 0:19:14 - Emergent Exploration- 0:22:33 - Plausibility Construct- 0:26:33 - Psychosocial Plausibility- 0:29:12 - Science and Consciousness- 0:30:03 - Culturally Manufactured Emergence- 0:33:30 - Normative Pragmatism- 0:34:56 - Disciplined Plausibility- 0:36:02 - Scotus and Ockham- 0:38:44 - Incoherent Notion of Being- 0:40:48 - Relativity and Alien Abduction- 0:47:18 - Individuating Consciousness- 0:51:33 - Standard Hume Empiricism- 0:52:22 - Elegance vs Realism- 0:53:40 - Nominal vs Ontic Partitioning- 0:58:28 - Questioning the Experiencer- 1:01:18 - Meta‑conscious Reflective Attention- 1:03:03 - Hume's Straw Man- 1:04:16 - Self and Meta‑consciousness- 1:06:33 - Dissociative Folded Reflection- 1:08:08 - What is the Self- 1:09:33 - Therapy Timeout- 1:15:11 - Solving the Meaning Crisis- 1:17:33 - Unbalanced Analytic Rationality- 1:19:17 - Idolatry of Nerds- 1:26:24 - Fluid Compensation for Physicalist Facade- 1:28:42 - Wrong Images of the World- 1:32:27 - Flat Ontologies and Depth Dimension- 1:34:21 - Obviousness of Experience- 1:36:54 - Normative Longing for Transcendental Noumenal- 1:40:00 - Meaning and Ontology- 1:44:40 - Meta‑meaning Worldview- 1:51:05 - Defining Existence- 1:56:44 - Drinking from Fount of Intelligibility- 1:58:29 - Behind the Scenes- 2:01:33 - Where Do You Disagree Most?- 2:04:33 - Real Field Harmonics- 2:06:11 - Grounding Monism & Spinoza Modes- 2:15:01 - Observation Beyond Dissociation- 2:16:16 - Space/Time Framework of Language- 2:18:02 - New Age Disavowal- 2:19:13 - Difference In Kind- 2:24:20 - Emergence Threshold- 2:26:37 - Inducing Dissociation in Universal Mind- 2:30:33 - Meta‑consciousness Reportability- 2:34:40 - Jung and Meta‑consciousness- 2:38:00 - Metacognition and Dissociation- 2:43:22 - Beyond Own Dissociation Boundary- 2:45:55 - Mental Dissociative CharacterSPONSORS:- Patreon: Support the show at https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal- PayPal: Donate via https://bit.ly/2EOR0M4- Twitter: Follow https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt- iTunes: Listen on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/better-left-unsaid-with-curt-jaimungal/id1521758802- Pandora: Stream on Pandora https://pdora.co/33b9lfP- Spotify: Stream on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e- Discord: Join with code dmGgQ2dRzS- Reddit: Community at https://reddit.com/r/theoriesofeverythingRESOURCES:- YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWcTmeAs44I- Curt's interview with JV alone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p8o3-7mvQc- Curt's interview with BK alone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAB21FAXCDE- Patreon for conversations on Theories of Everything, Consciousness, Free Will, and God: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal- Help support conversations like this via PayPal: https://bit.ly/2EOR0M4- Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt- iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/better-left-unsaid-with-curt-jaimungal/id1521758802- Pandora: https://pdora.co/33b9lfP- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e- Discord Invite Code (as of Mar 04 2021): dmGgQ2dRzS- Subreddit r/TheoriesOfEverything: https://reddit.com/r/theoriesofeverything- JV's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/johnvervaeke- JV's "Meaning Crisis" series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54l8_ewcOlY&list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ- BK's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeDZCa3VrRQvzBlVR-oVVmA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices