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Bernardo Kastrup
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Bernardo Kastrup's personal blog at bernardokastrup.com covers philosophy and science. Since 2018, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “What Zeno’s paradoxes can tell us about the hard problem of consciousness”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-14, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Bernardo Kastrup's essays, videos and free papers on philosophy, consciousness and spirituality. Commenters point to his posts on fear of death and on why dismissing philosophy threatens science.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
This is the homepage of philosopher and computer scientist Bernardo Kastrup, with links to his biography and most of his works.
Most-linked posts?
- What Zeno’s paradoxes can tell us about the hard problem of consciousness2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-08-29
What Hacker News says?
I've just watched a few of his vids he links to on his site, very interesting. I just read https://www.bernardokastrup.com/2016/04/conquering-fear-of-o... so well put. I'll read Rationalist Spirituality. Thanks again. Fascinating.
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on “Ask HN: What is your spiritual practice?”Submitted What Zeno’s paradoxes can tell us about the hard problem of consciousness as a story · 6 points
HN discussionVideo is not the standard medium of communication in academic philosophy. I imagine the GP mentioned youtube because most people are more likely to watch a video than read a paper. Bernardo Kastrup has a bunch of essays/books up for free at his website https://www.bernardokastrup.com/p/papers.html?m=1
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on “Is artificial consciousness achievable? Lessons from the human brain”Submitted Reality is nothing and everything at once as a story · 3 points
HN discussionRead Bernardo Kastrup's, a Dutch computer scientist and philosopher, criticism on panpsychism: " https://www.bernardokastrup.com/p/papers.html https://iai.tv/articles/will-we-ever-understand-consciousnes... https://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/emtud2/bernardo... He proposes an alternative answer for the mind-body problem; idealism instead of materialism https://www.bernardokastrup.com/p/papers.html
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on “Philosopher Philip Goff answers questions about panpsychism”Submitted What Zeno's paradoxes can tell us about the hard problem of consciousness as a story · 3 points
HN discussion* 10th century 7 point mind training https://www.steamboatbuddhistcenter.org/the-seven-points-of-... http://www.rinpoche.com/teachings/sevenpoints.htm * Bernardo Kastrup's view on the mind-body problem https://www.bernardokastrup.com/p/papers.html * Apache Kafka https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/insights/2... https://www.confluent.io/blog/real-time-financial-alerts-rab... * Apache Airflow https://bos…
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on “Ask HN: What awesome stuff have you come across lately?”Submitted The Reality Nervous System (2015) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionCheck the ideas of Bernardo Kastrup. https://bigthink.com/robby-berman/are-we-all-multiple-person... https://www.bernardokastrup.com/p/papers.html
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on “Toward a Mature Science of Consciousness”Submitted Hallucinated Implications Creep as a story · 2 points
HN discussionCritiques: ## bernardo kastrup https://www.bernardokastrup.com/2020/07/the-irony-of-philip-... ## joshua farris https://www.essentiafoundation.org/the-missing-subject-a-cri... ## edward faser http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2022/07/problems-for-goffs-p...
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on “Could the cosmos, in fact, be conscious?”Submitted Intellectual Fundamentalism as a story · 1 points
HN discussionMaybe readers will enjoy this related post from Bernardo Kastrup. It may argue the point better, or not. I can't argue myself as it's too obvious for me. It's a unwinnable argument in my opinion, since it drives right into what it means to know something. Why dismissing philosophy threatens the integrity of science https://www.bernardokastrup.com/2018/12/why-dismissing-philo...
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on “A Formal Apology for Metaphysics [pdf]”Submitted Why the world is imagined: A summary as a story · 1 points
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