In this episode I explore philosopher, Bernardo Kastrup's, approach to considering absurd and unusual phenomena like UFOs / UAPs, aliens, the 'Miracle of the Sun' at Fatima etc. Does a consciousness-first philosophy enable us to make better sense of phenomena often dismissed as subjective mumbo-jumbo? How do we make sense of reality to include the bizarre? How does quantum science reframe the boundaries between the subjective and objective?
Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:25 Who is Bernardo Kastrup
00:58 Calls of the Absurd
02:00 Hesdalen Lights
02:30 Miracle of the Sun Fatima
03:00 Moderate Scepticism
03:55 How do we frame 'objective' v 'subjective' events?
04:40 All our experience is 'weakly objective'
05:25 Science is largely 'weakly objective' as are shared 'bizarre' phenomena
06:30 Quantum Physics and Consciousness
07:10 Psychology more fundamental the physics?
07:55 Objective/Subjective divide is broken
08:33 Bizarre phenomena can't be dismissed as 'untrue/unobjective'
09:00 Consensus 'shared dream' reality
10:00 Bizarre phenomena may be like bizarre dream material entering the consensus reality
11:00 If all reality is subjective consciousness then bizarre phenomena can't be dismissed on the basis of a putative objective realism
