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Just had a, uh, very interesting experience online. Tell me your opinions on this man. (en.wikipedia.org)
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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

oh it's like with how "rationalists" think theyve invented ethics when recreating it for the 69420th time

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Exactly. Hell, a lot of baby leftists often stumble onto socialist ideas in the same way, noticing the contradictions of capitalism and thinking they've "discovered it."