Does God have a point of view?

What a session last week, I finally caught the recording and wow, one of the richest (and honestly trickiest!) conversations we've had in my opinion. Bernardo took us right into the heart of the "shared world vs. private dream" question: the difference between subjective and objective idealism, why he lands on there being a real world "out there" that's still made of mind, and how something as everyday as dissociation makes sense of it all. If you haven't rewatched it, it really rewards a second listen.

Do we share the world, or live in private dreams?

Objective vs Subjective Idealism | Recorded with Bernardo 4th August 2026.

Bernardo Kastrup: With Reality in MindAmir Giles

I've been through the chat, and there were so many brilliant questions we simply ran out of time for. So the plan for this week is to pick up some of these questions (as much as we’ve got time for) and get through them.

Here are five from last week's chat that stood out to me in the context of the discussion:

1. “It seems to me that Universal Consciousness of Analytical Idealism serves a very similar function to that served by Berkeley's Mind of God. Are we giving Berkeley too little credit?" Byron Diel
2. ⁠"Under subjective idealism, if 'to be is to be perceived,' in what sense does the thing doing the perceiving exist? Does perception being the only thing that exists entail subjectless experience? In other words, who is perceiving God, in Berkeley's formulation?" Alice Taylor
3. ⁠"But whose mental states are they? The real sky, the real table, etc. Doesn't that lead back to Berkeley's God after all? Or to the idea of 'cloud servers'? And if they aren't someone's mental states? How does it ultimately differ from materialism?" Martin
4. ⁠"Does Mind-at-Large have a perspective of its own? After all, in dreams, there is a perspective with which we identify and the contents 'out there in the dream' with which nobody identifies, so it could be that Mind-at-Large (the contents of the world outside dissociations) does not actually have a first person perspective." Robert Ruxandrescu
5. ⁠"Why are the dissociative boundaries of alters not gradual? Like why are they, though porous, still quite stable and well-defined?" Katja Ladynskaya

And please, drop your questions in the comments below if you come up with any question :) The more we gather, the better, and I'll do my best to get to as many as possible.

See you all very soon! 🙏

With love,
Nour

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11th August 2026 | 7-9pm UK time / 8-10pm CEST / 2-4pm EDT