From Capitalist Realism to Anarchist Idealism, Part One

Bernardo Kastrup, author of The Idea of the World

Trained as a computer scientist as well as a philosopher, Bernardo Kastrup worked at CERN, seeking to imbue Artificial Neural Nets with self-awareness or consciousness. Over time, he realized that all efforts to solve this problem presumed the existence of consciousness as an a priori. This led him to reconsider what is…