A publication by The Atlantic going over his works:
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/04/the-illusion-of-reality/479559/
My immediate intuition is that this is just bad philosophy disguised as pseudoscience, and from a philosophical perspective none of this makes sense. Am I wrong here? I would like insights.
He believes in so-called “conscious realism”, which believes that matter does not exist, and in fact, only consciousness exists.
Here’s a critical analysis of some of his stuff: https://philarchive.org/archive/ALLHCR
Edit: Please don’t downvote if you think this guy is a nerd, I am skeptical of him myself, but please, upvote so a particularly strong of constitution comrade can detail their opinions and dunk on him
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oh it’s like with how “rationalists” think theyve invented ethics when recreating it for the 69420th time
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Do popsci authors have a reputation?
My mental health has been repeatedly ruined by scientists reporting similarly ground-breaking and kind of shaky findings. Am I supposed to… not freak out about any supposed scientific fact that gets more than 1000 upvotes on Reddit?
Fuck
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look at me over here, assuming any part of hellworld works. what a stupid
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I feel like the person had legitimate spiritual beliefs in the thread