Analytic Idealism in a Nutshell Quotes

“Yet, the survival demand placed on the founders of the Enlightenment was precisely to escape their own mentation—for mentation is psyche, the domain of the Church—while pursuing knowledge. How to perform such a magic trick? One possibility was to appeal to second-hand knowledge: things that are known, but not directly by ourselves. Those things, despite being known, are outside our own mind and therefore objective from our perspective. They do exist—for they are known—but without being touched by the wand of our own knowledge. However, this obviously doesn’t work: known things must still exist in a mind, even if not our own mind; even if not a human mind. As such, they still fall within the scope of the psyche, the domain of the Church.”
― Bernardo Kastrup, Analytic Idealism in a Nutshell: A straightforward summary of the 21st century's only plausible metaphysics

“Bishop Berkeley’s Subjective Idealism made this abundantly clear, in claiming that the external world exists in the mind of God.”
― Bernardo Kastrup, Analytic Idealism in a Nutshell: A straightforward summary of the 21st century's only plausible metaphysics

“Notice that the physicalist assumption here is as big and untrivial as it is unjustified, for it implies that the structure and dynamics of perceptual representations are the structure and dynamics of what is represented; that the ‘physical’ objects discernable in perception have a one-to-one correspondence with objects that really exist out there, with the same outlines; that the ‘physical’ events discernible in perception actually unfold in the external world.”
― Bernardo Kastrup, Analytic Idealism in a Nutshell: A straightforward summary of the 21st century's only plausible metaphysics

“As such, does the moon exist when nobody is looking at it? If by ‘the moon’ we mean the aspect of reality that is represented as that shiny white disk up in the night sky, then yes, it exists whether or not anyone or anything is measuring or observing it. But if by ‘the moon’ we mean that shiny white disk itself—the colloquially ‘physical’ entity up in the sky—then no, it doesn’t exist if no living being is observing it, for the experiential qualities ‘shiny,’ ‘white,’ and ‘disk-shaped’ are cognitive representations created by the act of observation.”
― Bernardo Kastrup, Analytic Idealism in a Nutshell: A straightforward summary of the 21st century's only plausible metaphysics